(responding to whether the last 6 hours of flight were "straight").
Originally Posted by
hoss183
Yes it does, because we have the Inmarsat data. What we dont know is the position after the last ping and before impact.
Really people, go and read the basic facts before muddying the waters any more.
The Inmarsat data is very suggestive of a straight line. And, given certain reasonable assumptions, denotes travel to the South or Southwest.
The Inmarsat data is not so precise that you could conclude that the flight path was straight. You have to include other considerations (such as what good would minor turns be in the middle of nowhere) to reach the presumption that the flight was straight.