Originally Posted by
kappa
I didn’t bother to mentally record where I saw this because I was sure I would see it on these pages; but I see nothing. Is this more press speculation and made-up “facts”?
I think so. I don't see any way the satellite data could really show the aircraft was over water... banking between mountains, maybe, from the signal level and dropouts, but any reasonable altitude over water should be pretty much perfect conditions, just like flying high over land.