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Old 19th May 2016, 12:55
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Saw only 2 ships that made a 90 degree turn and are around 5 knots. The Oceanic and the Jork. Other ships were still 'cruising' through the area though at 10-20 knots. Also no 'special' vessels apparently on their way to the area. Or these have shut down their 'transponders'. Have not seen a restricted area yet. Based on this only, you would not even be able to say that any search was going on.

Best information till now appears to come from the translations of Greek officals statements by ThinkRate (thanks for those, hope you post some more).

Interesting to see the 'usual' statements about fire balls, satellites that should have spotted something, and all-seeing radars.

FR24 gets a lot of criticism, but at this stage it is all the general audience has. You have to be very careful, as some point out, with the interpretation of such data. First is that you have to separate received data from extrapolated data. And also the data it self might be suspect. A few weeks ago i was following a flight over the Java Sea on FR24 which suddenly jumped over to the Indian Ocean ! and took quite a few minutes to jump back. Next to that there are many gaps in coverage. But still, it is much better than nothing.
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