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Old 21st Jun 2009, 15:26
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SaturnV
 
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Takata, in your analysis of the sequence and date of body recoveries, and the drift of the bodies over time (from ocean currents and/or prevailing surface winds) how do you account for the significant amount of wreckage found on June 7 that is well to the west and south of the bodies recovered that day?



The bodies (and wreckage) recovered on subsequent days suggest a northward drift, which then became NW or W last week.

Of course, if one had the index to which parts of the plane (or passenger items) the white numbered dots represent, that would probably help. To date, neither BEA nor Brazil have released even the approximate coordinates for where significant parts of the wreckage were retrieved. What was retrieved at dots numbered 9 and 11 may be key. There are no items numbered 1-8, or 10, that I have seen on the BEA charts. There is a 12. It may be that the early numbers were assigned to flotsam mistakenly identified as being from AF447 in the earliest days of the search. Either that, or only the larger items are shown on the maps that were publicly released.
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