When Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 inexplicably changed course on 8 March 2014 and from all indications eventually flew to its doom in the southern Indian Ocean, it must have crossed paths with the shipping below.
Mike Chillit (@MikeChillit) tweeted graphic archiving trackable shipping when MH370 crashed.
Note that the very closely spaced of the yellow dots do not in most cases indicate separate ships, but the same ship at each reporting interval during the day.
The darker blue shading shows the priority search portion of the so called 7th arc positions from which an incomplete signal from an engine monitoring computer on board MH370 was sent to an Inmarsat satellite parked above the equator on the western side of the Indian Ocean at the moment 777 is believed to have struck the water after its fuel was exhausted.
Had any of the shipping that could have conceivably been under those possible flight paths noticed MH370 at the relevant times, it could allow the discarding or modification of some of the estimated flight paths and potential debris zones on the bottom of an ocean where the key areas have only just been surveyed so that they could be safely examined at closer range by towed deep sea sonar scanning devices.
Had any of the shipping that could have conceivably been under those possible flight paths noticed MH370 at the relevant times, it could allow the discarding or modification of some of the estimated flight paths and potential debris zones on the bottom of an ocean where the key areas have only just been surveyed so that they could be safely examined at closer range by towed deep sea sonar scanning devices.