CNN's idiotic news on the missing Malaysia370 plane said a satellite ping timing deduced that at 8:11pm, the plane had to be on a certain circle drawn on the globe. What CNN did NOT say was, if we ASSUME the plane flew on a straight path (i.e. geodesic great circle) at its most-efficient miles/gallon speed (which of course it would because the plotters were not idiotic) starting from a known place S at a known time T (both of which we pretty much know) then we can DEDUCE EXACTLY WHERE on that circle, the plane was a 8:11pm. You follow? There are two circles, one from the satellite, the other centered at S and of radius V*T where V is the 777's most efficient speed. The intersection of BOTH these circles is: two points. Find those two points, and you'll know where the plane was at 8:11 and you'll also know (under our straightness assumption) which direction it was going. Follow that direction out and intersect with all suitable landing strips, and you've found it. PS. Could anybody relay this message to, like, the appropriate government or whoever bodies? I tried to send it to them myself, but my experience whenever I try to contact the press or government about anything ever, is they always ignore me either forever or at least for weeks. I see no reason this should be any different.