JD-EE;
I seem to remember, but can't find the source right now, that:
- Somewhere in report #1 or #2, BEA says that all messages passed through the same satellite, and names that satellite. The Inmarsat site locates that satellite to the West of the aircraft.
- Somewhere else BEA says that during one of the 'breaks', the connection to the satellite was lost. Some considerable time ago, a poster on this thread disputed that, saying that BEA had misunderstood information provided by the satellite operator, and that in fact it was not established that communication had been lost in that period.
IIRC, ...