Yes, and if she hadn’t been in the yacht, every plane the Australian government could have got airborne with the range would have been sent out to search for her.
The point of the flypast was to see if anything else needed to be done. It didn’t, thankfully. It doesn’t mean there was no point to it.
The fishing boat could find her, and would have, just as quick without the high price fly-by.
Not one thing could that airbus give her except a cheeri-o, chin up lass.
The airbus did not “find her.” GPS/EPIRB took them straight to her, to the yard. Ditto the slow but sure rescue vessel.
And which one picked her up? Trust me, the fishing boat never saw the plane or talked to them.
The plane was an expensive ornament.