Machaca, in the overlay to mm43's graphic, the location is probably to the west of the arrow tip. mm43 carefully drew the first day's aerial search grid (the yellow box) along the flight path, and unless the Brazilians were blind, the location is probably several kilometers to the west of that first search grid.
As has been discussed for many months, the subsequent searches in the several days following were to the right of that yellow box (i.e., to the east) along the flight path.
From an academic standpoint, it will be interesting to learn the reasons for the current and drift reconstructions having been off.
Last edited by SaturnV; 4th April 2011 at 20:05.