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07-29-15, 08:45 PM

Finding it at Réunion tells us almost nothing about where the plane went down beyond confirming that it went into the Indian Ocean. Floating objects routinely drift many thousands of miles in such timescales, and there is no way to reliably 'work backwards' from where it ended up to a crash site.

Edit: take a look at this buoy tracking data, for an idea of the problem: http://www.pprune.org/rumours-news/5...ml#post9062874

07-29-15, 08:45 PM	#6
AndyJWest Stowaway Posts: n/a Downloads: Uploads:	Finding it at Réunion tells us almost nothing about where the plane went down beyond confirming that it went into the Indian Ocean. Floating objects routinely drift many thousands of miles in such timescales, and there is no way to reliably 'work backwards' from where it ended up to a crash site. Edit: take a look at this buoy tracking data, for an idea of the problem: http://www.pprune.org/rumours-news/5...ml#post9062874 Last edited by AndyJWest; 07-29-15 at 08:53 PM.