#2548 Australopithicus and gruntpuddock #2566
At 387 km from Chinese satellite image to oil rig a problem arises:
An object at 35,000' would be below the horizon of the observer on the rig.
but as I said in my post #2546 the wreckage was not at that point on the day of the crash, it was probably about "km" of 387km, and if you look at that it is about 70 miles from the rig, ( the distance estimated in the email was 50-70).
Look back and find the post with the prevailing currents and you will see they sweep down from G/Tonkin around tip of Vietnam and SW (in my original post I did say SE but meant SW)which is virtually the track from rig to wreckage.
If this is wreckage the guy on the rig saw the crash and it was on fire and had probably been out of control for a while before descending.