JD, not unless the flight continued from 02:10 and beyond 02:14 for some more minutes. The zone of east drift challenges and has the potential to replace the backwards drift projections.
Edit:If east drift replaced backwards drift projections, it might make more (or perfect) sense if af447 came down further west. Then the currents initially took debris eastward and then shifted to north-northeastward.
Otherwise, you would need to address and pull in all the posibilities for explaining why acars stopped at 02:14 but the plane continued on for some time.
Last edited by ttcse; 9th Jul 2009 at 00:28.