In "The Wisdom of Crowds", James Surowiecki describes an interesting episode: In 1968, the submarine Scorpion got lost in the north Atlantic and the navy had only a general idea of its location. To determine the position of the lost ship, various independent experts in different disciplines where asked to give their opinion about the location. Later, by weighting these answers, a naval officer managed to predict the position of the Scorpion within within 220 yards.

The idea now is to try to predict the position of the lost AF 447 flight through a similar scheme. To such end I ask you to examine the available data in newspapers and send the coordinates (latitute + longitude) where you think the main remainings are located by commenting to this post. To ensure that each of your posts is independent there will be a delay between your submission and the moment when the comment appears online.

Please send the coordinates in the format: X.XXXXN XX.XXXXW, or as a distance (XXX.XXX km N/S and XXX.XXX km E/W) from the last transmission point (3.5777N 30.3744W). More info on the Air France 447 flight available in wikipedia and links therein.

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