The map with the story is wrong since it shows the flight path over Indonesia.
The plane was tracked up and around Indonesia and Indonesian radar toward waypoint IGREX then south.
When it went south it had fuel to fly 2600 miles. Where they are looking means that it went down after 2000 miles — so it had fuel to go further but didn’t.
Was likely scuttled at that location on purpose because there was a ship waiting there???
Wanna bet they find that pinger down south and then they come to a conclusion it was NOT from 370?
Almost dead batteries, dropped in very very deep waters.
The last minute phone call?
All comms are being blanked out by jammers of escort aircraft but just before that one person manages to get connected.
Fuel usage depends on altitude and speed. If they were flying low and fast, they would not have gotten 2600 miles.