One of Wired’s comments spoke of tracking folks via wifi signal. Assuming the aircraft actually offers in-flight wifi (I haven’t the faintest if that’s true or not), the airline would have traffic logs of that data which could then be used to localize the moment of catastrophe. That said, I’ve heard rumors that the pilot may have turned back so that the course as plotted by timeline won’t be the same as the originally filed flight plan.
In any event, I hope it happened quickly and they all went calm as Hindu cows.
