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Old 30th Dec 2014, 17:54
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It was only 6 miles from the airplane's last known location and the search authorities only searched there because a fisherman made a report?

This does not sound like a competent search organization--where a standard search process would start at the last known location and expand outward. [I had been expecting that the airplane would be found something like 50+ miles away--as one can understand it takes a long time to search large areas]
If we want to lambast the search effort, let's do a proper job of it. I have been wrestling with this image of the "search area" for the last two days, and this was compounded by the news channels telling us yesterday that the search area was being expanded!


But out of politeness, I held my tongue.

I hope this map was just a product of the public relations department and was not representative of where they were really deploying assets.
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