Originally Posted by
BOAC
Can we draw breath here in lomapaseo's 'dance', and perhaps mm, who's contribution here has been superb!) could save me treading loads of pages and refresh us on the locations/distance apart of the tail empennage and the other debris? This 'in-flight separation' which is being toted here would most likely produce a wide separation, would it not?
See eg.
http://www.pprune.org/rumours-news/3...ml#post5541860
VS is the yellow diamond. See also page 37 of the first BEA report, and also annex 4 of the same. In short - VS was found in the debris field, not separated. The wide spread of debris in the overall diagram is down to drift due to currents and wind - the spread of items found on each day is less, as would be expected.