DaveReid (at 124 or 124),
I'm not really sure what obscure point of terminology you were trying to make about my reference to "publicly available" radar information and I don't really care. I posted twice to let people know that FlightRadar24 shows radar/transponder tracking information with the aircraft disappearing in an area with good coverage at 17:19 UTC, not the time initially misreported by the airline and ATC. I posted this at a time when most commenters were still operating under the incorrect belief that the plane flew for two hours before crashing.
I think I contributed something of value to the discussion. How about you?
BTW, all subsequent data confirms that the plane went down at the place and time shown by the FlightRadar24 data I was mentioning
So, please excuse the
out of me if my non-aviator terminology didn't liveup to your expectations.