@mrbigbird
@dicks-airbus
How do you account for the possibility of being stationary for 2 hours 59 mins....and it being possibly landed for this period?
The investigators monitoring the 'pings' - by time- or attenuation-shift, or whichever way they have managed to do it - have confirmed a strong probability of the last two 'pings' indicating transmission from the same location. Obviously they would have seen shift between the 2nd-from-last 'ping' and the penultimate, indicating the a/c was still moving at least up to the penultimate 'ping'. Minimum one hour in the same place, maximum ??? (once the 'pings' stopped).
Ditch into ocean, empty tanks, no major hull breach....one hour of buoyancy?