Originally Posted by mm43
IMHO, the area in the southeast corner of the above graphic is a highly improbable location, but you never know. I would have expected the remaining area to the southwest to have had priority, and hopefully it will get done.
I agree, but not because I know anything about the flight path or debris drift, but solely because the SE corner is a rectangle (G-30) that BEA already marked as having searched for the pingers with a "good reliability index" (second interim report, page 82). It seems as if all the area that was covered by the USN TPLs could have been eliminated from the search, because the TPLs were towed deep and would have heard any functioning pingers. It seems reasonable to assume that, with two pingers, at least one would be audible, unless
both pingers failed or landed with the pinger substantially obscured. It just seems like the areas of low pinger reception probability should have the highest priority for search.