mm43, thank you. I had overlooked that post of yours. But given that position, how to characterize the June 1 search by both Brazil and France and the negative results therefrom: incompetent, or simply inexplicable?
Both countries overflew that position on June 3 as well. Maybe by then, the currents had done their work. But the June 1 search also involved a surface ship, Douce France, searching the area of the LKP, though the exact area it searched has not been publicly revealed, one would think it concentrated on the area north of the LKP in the direction of Tasil.
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JD-EE, there are also the earrings. Given the soft tissue of ear lobes, I would be surprised if earrings were still there after a clothes-removing impact and submersion for five plus days.
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As for recovery of the bodies, I believed they recovered all the bodies that could be found from TW800.