Originally Posted by
Eclectic
They keep looking further and further south. It's really starting to stretch imagination. Latitude 45 south? I understand that there's wind and ocean currents and the object (if it were related to MH370) would have drifted in 2 weeks, but still. MH370 _might_ have run out of fuel close to the spot if it turned due south as soon as it was out of range of Butterworth, passing over a broad swath of Sumatra along the way. If (more likely) it continued at least 30 min. on the original heading before turning, in order to stay clear of Indonesia, it would only get as far as latitude 36 by the last ping, latitude 40 if it stayed airborne for another 30 minutes after that.
But let's wait and see what this mysterious object really is. Who knows.