A/C comms
MAS/Boeing/RR all deny any engine maintenance data transmitted after 1:07 am, ie 1 hour after TO.
However, it appears that the a/c's maintenance troubleshooting systems continued to ping about once an hour - picked up by satellites - prompting US to head to the Indian Ocean to a position calculated at 5 hours flying time (no public data as to how many pings were transmitted).
Boeing/RR decline to comment.
Clearly, not every piece of data or a/c communication capability is in the public domain - for very good reasons.
WASHINGTON/PARIS, March 13 (Reuters)
Given that pings were detected upto 5 hours later, and given that these pings have to go through the antenna, it appears that the hull breach at the antenna site could not have happened.
Last edited by brika; 13th Mar 2014 at 21:25.
Reason: Afterthought