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literalAardvarkyesterday at 7:09 PM1 replyview on HN

MH370 crashed in the Pacific.

Look at the globe some day from that angle and compare it to the Mediterranean.


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contingenciesyesterday at 7:24 PM

Err, no. The consensus and available evidence including washed up components seems to be that it crashed in the Indian Ocean, that's the (also vast) space between ~Australia and ~Africa, bounded in the north by Indonesia, the Indian subcontinent, and Arabia. It crashed somewhere in the eastern portion, not far from Indonesia and Australia. Currents then took parts as far as the Maldives/Sri Lanka, IIRC. The Pacific is the other (eastern) side of Australia, which stretches from the Aussie-Kiwi approach to the South Pole to Alaska, and Vladivostok to Tierra del Fuego.

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