Originally posted by BOAC:
There have been several (I think unanswered) requests here for positions of the groups of bodies found. Do we have any, and has anyone back-plotted the position of the second recovery vis a vis ocean currents to see where they would have been in relation to the first, and likewise for the first to the POSSIBLE crash site?
My answer:
The Brazilians gave information about the location of bodies on 9 and 16 June.
In the next picture I have combined this two pictures (orange spots = 9 June; red spots = 16 June).
In this picture I also give the possible drift of the bodies (in yellow)
(see debris and impact-location #1374))
YRP said:
Even if this information were available, I think it would be difficult to analyze properly. Most people here are not experts on ocean currents. An earlier post mentioned diverging surface currents in the area, ...... backtracking currents to the crash site sounds at least tricky if not completely unreliable.
I totally agree with YRP.
I know that even for a specialist this backtracking takes a lot of time and is difficult and uncertain.
But nevertheless we don't have a lot of time to find the black box.
And this forum can maybe answer the next question:
Simple backtracking shows a discrepantion between the possible impact-location and the location of ultimo ACARS report: is that possible?