India has temporarily halted the search in the Indian Ocean, as per latest on CNN. From the possible route shown on the screen, there is no way the plane flew over either India or Pakistan.
The map that CNN keeps showing- an arc to the North toward Kazakhstan and the arc to the South toward the Indian Ocean is not a projected flight path. It is an area where they think they plane could be based in the last "ping" from radar. Those lines are basically part of a "circle" on the Earth that can be determined from the ping. After eliminating what is impossible (based on speed, distance, fuel, etc.) those red lines are what was left. The plane could have made the turn west, flown back over Malaysia, flown over water and then headed North over India before crashing somewhere along that path.
I'm trying to find the video if the explanation they gave- it was REALLY informative- but haven't found one yet. I learned a lot watching it for sure because I couldn't understand how they were unable to determine direction of flight since they had that ping.
Here's one video:
http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/world/2014/03/16/nr-myers-malaysia-plane-search.cnn.html
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