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What hasn’t been elaborated with any significance is a vague reference to ‘indication’ prompting the USN to move the USS Kidd to the area.

With either a ‘shadowing’ or ‘transponder-reprogramming’, I think that’s plausible (the northern route), absent more conspiracy-related government involvement of multiple countries to quash radar data that would have certainly detected an overland course through Indian airspace.

This is the first map I’ve been able to find plotting the ‘7 pings’. Why? (rhetorical)

Again, I’m just hyper-critical of the manner of data-release (the word ‘data’ really can’t be used with a straight-face in this respect, so call it a metaphor) to the public.

I think it’s most probable that a US submarine detected an event that prompted extrapolation of very, very inaccurate satellite data and permitted them to overlay the data in a manner that fit the submarine’s data.

In that respect, the quasi-haphazard manner of data release is explained in that the secrecy of US sub operations is maintained.

I just think they’re lucky to have found any debris at all given the wind & ocean currents, anywhere near where they indicated, unless they’re looking exactly where ‘somebody’ told them to look, and it had little-to-nothing to do with the ‘satellite data’ (it was just a convenient explanation and a pretty graphic).