PJ Have you a view on the SATCOM in EMER ELEC (RAT or NOT) config?
takata Re: Your glide (complete airframe) theory:-
That depends on where the Brazilians found occupants (position, Lat long), verses the occupants found by the French (position, Lat long).
Do you agree that the two groups were miles apart (minus drift) and could not reasonably have arrived on the surface in the same location?; and then (in the days following) drifted apart (in such dissimilar directions) in two distinctly separate groups?
Following on, which group position (minus drift) are you basing your [pinger/ aft fuse wreckage] assumptions on?