Originally Posted by
threemiles
This would have required to fly a 777 exactly the same route that is estimated to be flown by MH370. The flights were only to confirm the general logic and pattern.
Which is a pity. Compared to the cost of this Operation re-flying the route based on all the 'known' would have been a rather cheap but potentially very valuable excercise. They could have even flown different altitude pattern.
Why hasn't it been done?
That way it should have been possible to validate the accuracy of the SAT data number crunching excercise and determine a probably scope of error.
That said, it is not to late to do this. Maybe before starting the next Phase, they could try to validate the numbers.