Search for Missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 Drastically Narrows

[muriel_volestrangler]

54. I'm not 'glossing over the fuel issue'; we can see that the expected flight to Beijing

is about as long as the direct flight to the probable last satellite ping; the reserve allows for the initial turns around the Malacca Strait, and going further.

I think you need to remember this: you are now the only person in the world that thinks the radar sightings by Malaysia and Thailand in the Malacca Strait didn't happen, that the guy on the oil rig saw a fire 587km away, and that the possible debris in the Indian Ocean causes any problem whatsoever with the accepted path of the plane - apart from one unnamed "expert" somewhere. The plane had enough fuel to get there, via the Malacca Strait. If you are going to claim, against all other opinion, that it didn't, then show your evidence.

And the plane couldn't have been floating for 90 minutes, because it pings every hour, and they know it moved some distance in the hour up to 0811. It's extremely unlikely that a plane would stay floating for long, anyway, especially in the open ocean with significant waves, but if it had, then it would be less likely that the debris sighted well to the south of the arc is the plane.