Ghostbear,
interesting and reasonable analysis.
I'm wondering anyway why not more seems to have been published by BEA on drift patterns.
Moreover also the Search patterns seem to ignore them largely.
given the trend between 6th and 17th of June, why would anyone perform a detailed search north or even at the poistion of the debris / bodies of June 6th.
From my (very amateur) perspective starting around the location identified by mm43 and then going e.g. in concentric circles would have increased the likelihood of finding something significantly. At least much more likely then around the location of the bodies found on June 6th. And I guess most people around here would agree.
So many experts and big dollars being involved I'm a bit uncertain what us mortals are missing?