“Cocos Island runway is large enough for landing and takeoff, and lies outside of normal transit radar coverage, controlled by a totalitarian, backward country, that isn’t friendly to outsiders”
Cocos is an Australian Territory, yes largely Muslim, but I think highly unlikely that is where that plane went.
http://www.regional.gov.au/territories/Cocos_Keeling/governanceadministration.aspx
“Cocos is an Australian Territory”
Wrong Cocos. There is more than one.
I’m talking about the small-Burma-controlled islands north of the Andamans. You mean Keeling, west of Indonesia.