Originally Posted by
pspercy
but what about the pings? what would explain those?
InMarsat pings and/or blackbox pings ? Don't know. I thought BB pings had some sort of ID encoded in the signal ? Anyone know?
What seemed strange to me from published "news" reports was that villager sightings in both Malaysia & the Maldives were so quickly dismissed.
There are always accounts like the ones from the Maldives. People "saw" TWA800 get shot down by missiles, which was proven to be completely incorrect.
I'll be the first to admit that before the Inmarsat data, I was very open to the possibility that the aircraft had been hijacked and had landed somewhere. However, with the Inmarsat data and the transponder pings from the current search area, I believe such theories are no longer rational. It could easily take weeks or even months to locate the wreckage, but I think there is very little doubt that the search area is in the vicinity where the aircraft went down.