Yes, that’s pretty obvious. But there may be another cause.
Chinese satellite images seem to have found the wreckage in the Strait of Malacca:
:http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/12/world/asia/malaysia-airlines-plane/index.html?hpt=hp_t1
From your CNN Video report . . .ff 00:55 to hear reporter suggest this site roughly coincides with the location provided by the oil rig worker.
According to the video, the Chinese have had this since Sunday. What took so long to release the information?