Thanks Jeff -
"Looking for a needle in a haystack" - and that's the only thing you'll find. Search hard for the needle and you'll miss all the hay around it.
Hopefully that's what'll happen when they get back - that is, take a look at the hay.
I'm curious about AE and her airplane also. However, I'm skeptical that we have the proper or advanced enough technology to answer the question definitively.
I'm also a good enough businessman and planner to know when I'm wasting assets. At the same time, I'm not part of the TIGHAR inner circle thus it's impossible to determine, fer sure, that assets are not at their most productive. Yet, from what I've read here, it could be questionable.
I've also got enough time in the air under difficult circumstances that weighs my opinion toward Malcom's - she went down in deep water and was lost.