St George of the Garden wrote on Mar 25
th, 2014 at 6:51pm:
It seems a UK satellite found the real debris?
No not at all.
Inmarsat, which is a company based here which tracks all airplanes and ships across the world was able to identify from the hourly pings the possible last point of contact of the aircraft based upon the time taken to ping and the location at that point of the satellite.
Since that announcement, they then worked back and calculated by way of the hourly pings, the time taken to reach them, the position during each ping of the satellite and the trajectory of all other known aircraft accounted for in the area.
By painstaking process of elimination, which has taken them 2 weeks. They have been able to confirm that the northern route was not taken by MH0370.
The only route it could have taken to fit in line with the data received was the southerly one.
Given that, the last ping was received 7 hours after it lost radar contact and therefore it is confirmed that the reason that there were no further contact was because it had ditched somewhere.
The position it was last known was the middle of the southern Indian Ocean - the closest land mass being Antarctica to the south and Perth to the far west.
Well beyond reach of the plane by that time.
There has been no confirmed wreckage.