[MarMema]

It did not crash. There were no ELT signals. The pilot(s) went through way too much to simply dive into the sea. They could have done that 6 hours earlier.

I saw a map on an aviation forum that followed the line across the Andaman islands to a very thin corridor with no radar, space to go just in between, and it led toward Khazakstan..Xingai...etc.

[Mark17]

It did not crash. There were no ELT signals.

We just do not know. When I was stationed at Laughlin, we heard ELTs going off about 10 times a day, virtually every day. Not one time, in the nine years I was there, did it turn out to be anything, except a mistake. Actually, it was quite irritating to us.

[WildHighlander57]

So possibly stopped someplace “safe” and topped up, then they “threaded the needle” in between the radars and adiz air defense zones and got to their destination.