It's even worse as a theory when you consider the hijackers give out accurate information as to their distance from the satellite but bet on inaccurate directio

It's even worse as a theory when you consider the hijackers give out accurate information as to their distance from the satellite but bet on inaccurate directional data to throw everyone off. You've still narrowed down the search space considerably - not to mention all the time between finding the distance pings and directional pings when the correct path is being checked.