Satellite ping arcs for MH370 published

I find it strange that we don't hear of any reports of any investigators doing modeling for how long debris could possibly stay afloat.

Two things stand out.

1. One is that the plane exercised a directional maneuver to change heading and depart from its' planned route, exactly at the one moment that it was between contact with 2 separate centers in 2 different jurusdictions.

2. It was heading in a northernly direction over the Strait. So to find it in the southern corridor, the plane would've also had to perform a second near 180 turnaround.

And I'll throw in a bonus:
3. There hadn't been an ELT activated to ping: 'come look for me here' which would be expected in the case of a crash on land or water. Though I acknowledge that the ELT reliability rate has been less than ideal, and is completely dependent on airline maintenance.

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A plane can certainly turn around a second time. And even the timing of the first turn around could be coincidental.

But after a certain amount of mental gymnastics to believe everything is coincidental, that one must acknowledge the mire likelier possibility that someone was controlling the plane intentionally, whether pilot or hijacker.

And if you can't know conclusively who was ir wasn't on the plane, you can't know their level pilot training either.

It would be difficult to take seriously any claim by any official that suggests conclusively that no passenger on that flight had extensive pilot training. Not when it has been proven conclusively that at least 2 or more passengers got on the flight with falsified and/or stolen credentials.

I'm not ready to insist on any particular theory. But until the plane or parts of it are found, it's difficult to follow whatever 'official' version du jour is promulgated without considering alternatives that may fit the facts, as reported.

"Assuming it was traveling in a straight line at a constant speed, the location can be further narrowed down by intersecting the flight path with the arcs such that the segments produced are equally spaced."

That seems to be roughly how they estimated a trajectory.

But you can't rely on an infographic to be exactly to scale. Consider it a decent approximation at best.

So unless you're given actual real points that intersect those arcs to plot them in a mapping program, attempts to get precise results will be greatly compromised.

But you can get a general idea of direction by eyeballing it as you've done below.

I realize that the map projection makes a difference. Using the map in the link, though, I get a best fit near about 16-17 degrees relative to the inside arc. The only alternative to the one on the map would produce a location probably in Kazakhstan or Uzbekistan.