Oceans are vast. The debris likely fell over a wide area. Most of the stuff in an airliner is denser than water and, therefore, will sink. The water there is deep. Very deep. Searchers would have to know the precise location of the aircraft when it broke-up in order to have a chance to locate debris in a timely manner.
“Oceans are vast.”
Not to mention that the depths are as great as 30,000 ft?
and there are mountain peeks from the floor that go up 20,000ft?
It is all mind boggling.
The fate of the AF flight may remain an unsolved mystery.
Since this past August, I have been on one r/t flight with Qatar Airways from Vienna to Philippines on A320 and A330,
and a one way back to Philippines in Jan. on an A330.
Happy that I won’t be doing that again.