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[Chris Scott]

Thanks SaturnV,

For confirming the VS (fin) positions you originally quoted. Therefore, tentatively, the 29-hour "voyage" of the VS-rudder assembly still stands, subject to the accuracy of the "sighted" position of June 6.

Guess the map that appears twice in BEA Interim Report 1 must be wrong.

I'm wondering what effect the close-proximity of the north-migrating ITCZ (front inter-tropique) may have had on the accuracy of surface-wind estimations.
To be simplistic:
(a) with the ITCZ just south of the crash zone, would the surface-wind have been in the north-east?
(b) if the ITCZ had already passed through (say at 4° N), might the crash-site surface-wind have been between south-east and south-west?
(c) if overhead the crash zone, would it have been light and variable ("Doldrums")?
Perhaps our nautical/meteorological colleagues may comment?

Thanks also for including all the other stuff: will try to assimilate.