Hi there
Thales and the French Marine would have isolated (location accuracy: a few tens of km²) the pinger signals embedded in sonar signals collected by the Emeraude during the 1st phase of searches. According to these new data, the BEA is currently reallocating its search means approximately 2 hours of navigation (~50 km ?) to the south of the area being explored just before (to the north west of the last known ACAR position):
Communiqué de presse, 6 mai 2010
http://www.bea.aero/fr/enquetes/vol....4052010.fr.jpg Would it put the new search zone in right part of the area 1 ? (wonder how it compares relatively to the back drifted crash areas with a large turn to the west like:
http://www.pprune.org/5118143-post4200.html, from an initial work by mm43)
A new press release is scheduled for next monday at the BEA in Paris, hopefully more will be said about this new search zone, and the certainty that can be allowed to the signal identification. The Navy already warned that this may be a tremendous task given the seabed roughtness.
Jeff