Anti Skid On, the page numbering slips a bit as posts are deleted.
To correct for the record,
Hamster3null wrote:
In case of AF447, even though the location of supposed incident was poorly known, pieces of wreckage were spotted from the air during the second day, before any ships even had a chance to get to the site, and first bodies were being pulled out of the ocean in 5 days.
In case of TWA 800, a large piece of the wing was found in the ocean the day after the incident.
Finding no trace of the aircraft at 60+ hours after it goes missing, in a densely populated region, is quite unusual and the media is justified in making it an issue.
No wreckage that proved to be from AF447 was found on the second day.
The center tank explosion on TW800 was witnessed by many.
Image below is a reconstruction of the sightlines of various witnesses. See image at:
http://twa800.com/images/witnesses-sightlines.jpg
SAR knew exactly where to look immediately.