Let’s say this is true. What’s in it for Pakistan? Isn’t this a very high risk enterprise for them? China and Pakistan have been allies going back to the 60’s. Would Pakistan keep 200+ Chinese citizens captive? Would they have allowed China to think that they didn’t know anything about the plane, while everyone is looking for it?
Well no one else tracked it so why would we expect them to track it.
Now my silly question is...if they turned off the transponder, why was no one notified immediately so that satellites or a few of them little jets could triangulate the plane.
Someone is lying their a** off.