Originally Posted by
SLFguy
The 'not recoverable' statement is very strange indeed.
For that to be the case there would have to be some
local impediment, (depth is irrelevant), and given that they are merely ascertained a location zone it is impossible to have established that such an impediment exists.
The impediment will be terrain. My bet is the location zone turns out to be in a very difficult terrain area (mountains / ravines) for recovery. The undersea terrain information is already known, hence the impediment would be known once the location was.
It will be fascinating to find out (assuming we will) where the new zone is and whose predictions (if any) of impact point were correct.
Must admit i am slightly bemused by the timing - this result having turned up just
after completing a long and expensive search phase. So the analysis must have happened in parallel - which makes not a lot of sense, unless they had no confidence in the new analysis. Or maybe military classification of data/results has got in the way somewhere.