Warren D Smith: "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..." CNN has been infuriating to watch since someone decided that the plane did indeed make a left turn and flew west. The underlying assumption is that the westward-flying plane tracked by military radar was MH370. If someone actually proved that to be the case, they neglected to share it (as far as I am aware) with the general public. However, once that became an accepted fact, the subsequent pings showed that the plane was in the air for six to seven hours, as opposed to (say) on the surface of the ocean somewhere in the South China Sea. The circle was abridged as two arcs, a northerly one and a southerly one. The missing arc between them was in the South China Sea. Presumably it was excluded because why would they fly back to where they came from! Even after it was explained that the arcs represented possible locations at that point in time (8:11 AM, local time 9 March), CNN commentators kept referring to each arc as a "path" (as in flight path), spinning their wild conjectures. I'm on record saying (on Google+) that "I am putting some faith in Mike McKay, the New Zealand oil rig worker who claimed to have seen, off southeast Vietnam, a plane burning in the sky." If I'm wrong, so be it. But in my mind this is still a plausible (if not likely) possibility.