AF447

[AstraMike]

I thought it was well established that it took a while, days in fact, depending on surrounding temperature, before a human body would float. Equally, the conditions below the surface are different than those on the surface.

Therefore you cannot base constant drift assumptions on the bodies, until they surface.

Strangely, it seems to me that the remains are largely co-located with other debris, along a drift trail, although I stand to be corrected. If I am right - this has to be wrong, unless the debris started to surface and float at about the same time that the bodies did, give ot take a bit for wind effect.

Either way, you surely can't extend the drift line back assuming a constant drift rate? And then, what was the sea state at the time of the accident and what account has been taken of this?

There has to be an answer that precludes a 180 turn in inclaement weather where a stall or overspeed are real threats as I doubt very much that this would have been achievable and once in the throws of disaster the winds at the time, let alone wind shear, would have taken control of the direction of the aircraft, likely moving it off track.

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