Originally Posted by
TwoOneFour
It could have been found faster. There was a lot of modelling to reduce the search zone as much as possible from the defined area, and it actually backfired. If the search team had started out with the full-on systematic scan to which it eventually was forced to resort - and which turned up the wreck in about a week - it wouldn't have taken anywhere near as long.
I read they recalled the american modelers who re- did the model after changing some parameters the main one being to assume the pinger had'nt worked and with the new area went and found it almost immediately.