thanks OLD BOEING DRIVER. it should be obvious to anyone that primary radar will tell the story if there was primary radar contact. someone asked who uses primary radar? everyone, but usually the secondary is selected. I imagine if the radar OVER THERE is even as good as our radar was 20 years ago there should be some record somewhere that can be viewed over and over.
and it should be.
IF anyone can ask the question of someone in authority, that would be great, speculation by others is not answering the question.
DOES anyone remember when stephen fossett was lost? He the man who flew the balloon on long flights? He was in a decathalon and took off from the area near a small nevada town. HIS plane was searched for and not found until someone found his driver's license. IT TOOK almost 12 months or so. And it was on the ground not the sea.
Earhart's plane is still missing from 1937!