Hmm. In Sinkiang province, where there has recently been an outbreak of political unrest driected against the central Chinese government. And the plane carried 150 Chinese passengers. Perhaps some deliberate obfuscation has been practised? WFL On 3/16/14, Warren D Smith <warren.wds@gmail.com> wrote:
The picture https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/3507527/malay370.png
summarizes my deduction.
This is based on now finding in wikipedia the timing data I needed. It was at 6deg 55min 15sec N, 103deg 34min 43sec E at 1:30am local time = 17:30 UTC. It then was detected by Malay military radar at 2:40am local time "near Pulau Perak, in the Straits of Malacca."
http://my.news.yahoo.com/mh370-detected-above-malacca-straits-2-40am-0626177...
Based on this I estimate the center S of the second circle and time T at which plane was there, as shown in figure.
If plane then flew straight at 905 km/hr then at 8:11am local time, it had to be on a circle of radius=4462km centered at S.
Intersecting this circle with the satellite-pig circle, we deduce the plane's location at 8:11am Malay time as shown in figure.
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NY Times: "Pilot Spoke to Air Controllers After Shutoff of Data System"
indicates pilot spoke to air control after the data system was shut off, and did not indicate anything awry. The only reasonable explanation of this is that the pilot himself was the one whodecied to take the plane on its odyssey.
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