Search for Missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 Drastically Narrows

[muriel_volestrangler]

51. There's nothing on those pictures that give "the farthest location reachable with the fuel on board"

There is, however, a flight path that describes exactly what I, and the whole world's media, have been saying - west across the peninsula, then north-west, then south, once it got north-west of Sumatra.

Here's a map where the edge of the circle is the flight limit from the last contact in the Sough China Sea:



Notice that it easily includes the spot where they're now searching, so it would be quite possible to reach the area they're now searching after the turns through the Malacca Strait. A line going south, passing just west of the tip of Sumatra, crosses the centre arc where the satellite positions the plane at 8:11am roughly due west of Perth - but they give a shaded area because that calculation cannot be precise, so it may have been towards the bottom of the shaded area. After that satellite contact, the plane could have flown up to an hour before finally crashing (the satellite pings are every hour), which enables it to reach the area they're now searching.