how do you know the satellite image from here is not connected to the same debris photographed by an airplane up there? part of it has to do with distance and time. this is 700 miles. over the period of days we're talking about here, five or six days, it would be very difficult for something to naturally follow that path. normally debris is moving out a half mile or a mile an hour. on a busy day, two or three or four, but not so much in a straight line. you need to get between four or five miles an hour for it to cover that distance in the time allotted. this is probably not connected to the other debris. if you figure out this is standalone debris that is connected to the plane, that is just the first part of the mystery. because then you have to look at where did it come from? where did it originate? if you spread a grid on the water and mark the grid where the search area was and narrow it down to where you found the