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Old 6th Aug 2015, 08:14
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you can surely exclude 360,s since an nearly "stationary" aircraft would be recognized by doppler effect , but - as far i understand it - the cannot say anything about what path the aircraft took between the seven pings , what altitude it had at all and what speed it had between the pings .
This was discounted on the previous thread. Had the aircraft been doing 360s, it would have had to be heading away at every ping to avoid high Doppler. Given the the Times for each ping was unknown to the pilots we can assume the aircraft Did not make several orbits - one possibly, more,unlikely.
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