originally posted by SaturnV ...
... may have the exact coordinates for the two search boxes flown on June 1, but eyeballing the graphic, it would seem that the search that day covered an area about 20 NM to the left of the track, from the last reported position halfway to Tasil. It is hard to believe that if the plane had impacted within this grid, that evidence of the impact would have been missed.
The FAB screen shot shown in
post #1127 shows the early search was a grid search along the route from the LKP to TASIL and it commenced 10NM before the LKP and included 10NM each side of projected track to about 42NM from LKP. A more intensive search was done from LKP to TASIL at about 3NM each side of track. The finding of some unidentified debris to the SE of the LKP disrupted any further searching in what we now believe was the area of real interest.
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