And if they’re concocting a cover story nearly a week is long enough to plant evidence of a crash. Especially someplace remote.
You can’t tell me they didn’t know within hours of the flight having gone missing that the engines were still transmitting for several more hours.
Just maybe Banacek (George Peppard) should be asked to come out of retirement !
They say that French plane that went down off of Brazil a few years ago likewise wasn’t discovered until 5 days after.