Originally Posted by
Firewind
Have there been reports anywhere as to how large of a search effort might be underway radiating out from Reunion, and its progress, if any? And anything about "reverse modeling" underway - beyond what we've already seen w/r/t typical Indian Ocean currents? OK, this still may be cart before horse (to ask here) as there hasn't been official confirmation of the flaperon's provenance from the French. But both activities would be timely.
There is some reverse modelling of a few hundred points from Reunion back 18 months or so in one of the links I posted in this or the other MH370 thread. They seem to show that anything entering the southern Indian Ocean eventually gets caught up in the gyre that heads west to Reunion. In other words, don't give any meaningful clue as to where things started from.