John, isn't it a tad hypocritical of you to claim that the witness testimony is worthless since you are the one that started this whole witness investigation to begin with (or am I mistaken).
You are mistaken. That was CIT and friends. In this case, I use eyewitness accounts just like I was trained to do and did for 12 years. Take them collectively understanding that NOONE has perfect recall. The amount of degradation of the memory is based on a multitude of factors.
I used to train our facility employees in the basics principles behind statistical methods (my specialty). I would put up a powerpoint slide with a selected reading and ask the class (usually around 30) to count the number of f's in it. Even in that controlled environment where they had ample time to make the count, there would be a wide range of answers. Plotted in a histogram, their answers would form a perfect Gaussian (normal) curve.
What CIT (and you) have done are to take eyewitness accounts from ONLY one side of the actual flight path. That will result in a skewed result with a mean north of the actual path. It is the same effect I would have seen if in the example above I had only take the answers that were less than the actual number.
They encountered the same thing west of the Sheraton when they interviewed only people located south of the flight path. The resultant was an eyewitness path that was skewed to the south.
No, I've gone behind CIT and talked to a great deal more people that witnessed the event on BOTH sides of the flight path. Where possible, I got the original "as it happened" records (such as the ACPD dispatch audio).
Contrary to your misstatements, taken collectively the eyewitnesses support the official, fdr, radar, or SoC path, whichever name you wish to use. But if you only take the accounts of people located north of the path as valid eyewitnesses, then you draw an erroneous conclusion as to what the path was.
Why do you think so many convicted rapists and murderers had to be set free after DNA testing came along? Because most had been convicted based on eyewitness accounts ... and eyewitnesses get it wrong!