Diego Garcia appears to be about 1 000 nm from the nearest point on the arc they are searching along for the jet.
On the map, Where the caption reads '35,000 km above', DG is approx where the 'o' in 'above' is.
Fox
Thanks for that
So assumption must be that as they savvy regarding radar coverage and holes in it then area heading towards DG spreading out hundreds of miles from DG would also be off limits.
I work on assumption that anything heading towards DG gets picked up way way out.................just a hunch.
I think aircraft is still in Malaysia / Indonsia ........easier to organise and hide where as everybody suggests 5-6 hours away.