How Did Inmarsat Deduce Possible Flight Paths for MH370?
siam.org
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http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/05/why-th...
I've skimmed both article but haven't had a chance to focus on either and form any kind of opinions on the analysis. More data would certainly be nice to have, finding the aircraft would be even better.
The presentation linked in the siam.org article dives into the math involved.
From an interesting research standpoint yes but from a circus standpoint for the investigation probably not.
People like Duncan Steel who aren't actually on investigations like these would love for everything to be open sourced but never consider the negative consequences like suddenly companies and countries are much less forthcoming with information they don't want in the public domain and all the wackjobs that come out of the woodwork with nonsense distractions {How's that Boston Marathon bombing investigation going reddit?}.
They also overrate their own abilities, if the NTSB and AAIB need help with the physics I'm sure they would ask for it directly from their pick of world class experts -- people every bit as good as any of those who are lobbying for the investigation to be crowdsourced.