Kikapu wrote:Actually, the 1,440,000 sq/km I have given above is way off. That was the calculation based on the aircraft going ONLY in another direction other than the south, but since we don't know, it could have gone in any direction other than south which makes the haystack much much bigger. After re-thinking, it should be somewhere close to 4,674,000 sq/km at max, because if the plane made a directional change after the 7th ping and flew for another 59 minutes in any other direction but the south at 900Km per hour (over the ground speed) and adding the new figure +-181Km, we would get this new figure of possible crash site to search.
Yes Pyro, finding the MH370 can ONLY be by accident at this point, unless there are other know information out there we don't know about!
The 7th ping occurred 7:29 hours after take off. BTO at that point was 18040 microseconds
9 minutes later, or 7:38 hours after take off, they got that partial handshake (lets call it ping 8 ). That partial handshake data transmitted totally weird data (BTO=23000 microseconds), indicating that the plane had moved by 1488 Km away from the position of ping 7 which is impossible to happen within 9 minutes.
Even more weird is what they received 5 seconds later (lets call it ping 9) they describe it as "the last transmission received from the aircraft terminal" whose BTO was an amazing 49660 microseconds which indicates that the plane traveled further away by 7998Km within 5 seconds!!!!
You may have a look at my graph that shows all these. I have not included ping 9 (it would destroy my graph) however i did include ping 8 the partial handshake just for the record. numbers in parentheses are hours from take off-comma-distance from sat elite in km
If the above data for pings 8 and 9 were correct then the plane was sucked by a black hole
Striking out pings 8 and 9 as unreliable we can assume the Engines stopped 9 minutes after ping 7. So it should have traveled about 120 km straight away from the position of ping 7 plus whatever distance it needed to descend in the sea without fuel possibly in a random direction.Add to that the positional error at ping 7 of +-181Km.
Amazingly large area indeed.