I keep coming back to no one has found so much as a seat cushion yet.
The plane has been claimed to have been everywhere but at McDonalds with Elvis.
This last bit of sudden certainty seems an attempt to make it all go away. Its still liable to show up on a runway in Pakistan or something.
The plane is somewhere that nobody has been looking. At this point I question -all- of the facts so far reported. Did it really turn? Maybe not. Did they fly out west? Maybe not.
Did it lawn-dart into the mountain jungle of Cambodia? Maybe. Some other place? Sure. Maybe.
I think there is something -very- basic about the information we are assuming that is just plain -wrong-. All the communications. All the radar info. All the ADIS data. Everything. Something there is just wrong.
We are looking in the wrong place.
Its still liable to show up on a runway in Pakistan or something.”
Agreed
It takes time to get fake wreckage into position and load data and drop off a couple of data recorders.