Originally Posted by
trailboss99
This could take a while . . .
It will be interesting to see what happens when a host of mathematicians pour over the Inmarsat data. I can't see them releasing anything they were not very sure of however. They have a lot of credence at stake here and a lot of money has been spent on their sayso.
Hopefully they will remember to take into account that the presumption is a constant air speed, not constant ground speed. The article linked a dozen or so posts ago implied the plane had the same ground speed on both arcs, but clearly that would not be the case unless winds in both regions were the same (highly unlikely).