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DSTG
Defence Science and Technology Group · Bayesian path analysis
Produced the posterior along the 7th arc used to site the official underwater box.
DSTG Bayesian flight-path analysis
Defence Science and Technology Group, Australia
A probabilistic reconstruction of MH370’s path from SATCOM metadata. Output is a distribution along the 7th arc, not a pin in the map.
Bathymetry and underwater search begin
October 2014
Fugro vessels and partners begin wide-area bathymetric mapping and towed-sonar search of a defined 7th-arc corridor.
BTO range rings and BFO Doppler residuals
Inmarsat / Ashton et al. · Journal of Navigation
Burst Timing Offset describes distance from the satellite (an arc on the Earth). Burst Frequency Offset encodes relative motion and is why official analysis went south, not north.
Fuel exhaustion, then uncontrolled descent at the 7th arc
Prevailing official end-of-flight model
After a long southern cruise the aircraft flames out near 00:19 UTC, the SDU logs on from APU/emergency power, and the aeroplane leaves controlled flight. Wreckage should lie on or near the 7th arc.
Handshake 4
21:41:24 UTC
Fourth SATCOM handshake, still on the southern corridor in BFO reconstructions.
The Operational Search for MH370
ATSB AE-2014-054 · final search report 2017
Australia’s account of how the southern Indian Ocean search box was drawn, refined, and exhausted over 120,000 km². Primary technical home of the 7th-arc argument used in the field.
The Search for MH370 — Journal of Navigation
Ashton, Dickinson, Hall, Roberts, Smith · Inmarsat · 2014/15
The paper that showed how BTO and BFO from routine signalling units can reconstruct a long flight the airline did not know it still had.
273 records in the file.