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Old Mar 28, 2014, 12:23 am
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Originally Posted by M@rcoPolo
Most likely they worked out MH370 speed during the FIRST part of its journey (still covered by Malaysian & Thai radars) was FASTER than they previously assumed and therefore consumed more fuel - also the climb to 45,000 feet and the segment flew at lower altitude must have contributed to higher fuel consumption - therefore the only possibility for the plane to stay in the air until the last ping was to fly SLOWER in the second part of the route (south) putting it further up north (being slower) and closer to the Australian coast (due to the arc traced using the last satellite ping).

This is the only sensible deduction based on the info released today as far as I'm concerned...
It's also consistent with the trend of the map in the Wiki (second under "Maps, imagery, graphics") - the one that shows the whole region with two tracks. Note that the 400 knots track (yellow) gives a endpoint north and east of the endpoint for the 450s knot (blue) track. It looks like those were two extremes to give the boundaries of the problem, but this new evidence suggests the speed was closer to 400 knots than 450.
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Last edited by RadioGirl; Mar 28, 2014 at 12:43 am Reason: Okay, done re-thinking.
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