Did not Inmarsat base their conclusions on those other flights(altitude, speed) and not satellite data alone? By Inmarsat’s own calculations they ASSUMED equality of MH370 to the other flights and based their conclusions on those assumptions. Also from one of Inmarsat’s early info releases they stated the PROBABILITY of a southern route was quite high but not 100%. It was Inmarsat’s best educated guess were this flight came down.
I don't recall everything Inmarsat reported. I assume what Inmarsat concluded was based on what the Inmarsat satellite received from fl-370 and all other flights. FL-370 did not report altitude or speed but many others did.
By Inmarsat’s own calculations they ASSUMED equality of MH370 to the other flights and based their conclusions on those assumptions.
I guess the question here is why would Inmarsat technical people assume a different speed and altitude for FL-370?
Also from one of Inmarsat’s early info releases they stated the PROBABILITY of a southern route was quite high but not 100%. It was Inmarsat’s best educated guess were this flight came down.
If say their probability of a southern route was say 93 percent, from where does the other 7 percent come?
Inmarsat used the Doppler shift data to determine that it likely headed south because the Malaysian military would not give anyone their radar data on the plane.
Two days ago after the insistence of the Chinese the Malaysians finally let someone see their radar data on the plane which enabled them to refine their search area south to flight path 460 closer to kangarooland.
In otherwords Malaysian military radar data joined Professors Ping and Doppler in confirming that the plane went South.