Originally Posted by
PilotsResearch
Are there any skydivers on this forum?
Looking at the girl's picture at LED airport, I'd guess she weighed about 15 pounds (7 kg). As such she'd probably be ranked as a "slow" faller in skydiving parlance.
Can someone with the right knowledge, and a winds aloft report, compute how far she might have drifted in a 31,000 foot fall?
mach411 post 1360_
With respect to the position the toddler was found, I think RYFQB solved the mystery in post #1359. When the body was found, it appears that according to TASS the most recent search area completed was 33 square kilometres. 33 kilometres is 20.51 miles, so the most likely explanation is the information was misreported as direct distance of 20 miles from the main crash site.
Given the 33 km^2 area, if we assume a circle, the body was actually found no more than 3.24 km away from the main crash site.
pls note #1359 is not by RYFQB, so ether number is wrong ot post1359 deleted
OTOH
Oleostrut says
"Given the 33 km^2 area, if we assume a circle, the body was actually found no more than 3.24 km away from the main crash site."
Reports on finding the toddler were very clear she was found a great distance from the crash site. Greater than 21 miles was what was reported, and investigators needed to greatly expand their search area, especially along the earlier flightpath.
Nowhere in any of the reports was there any ambiguity as to the child being found distant from the crash site.