Doubtful when the info the government has indicates the airplane was apparently intact and operating for another 7 or so hours. If it’s lying around the Andamans then that would mean it went out and flew a grew big circle over the Indian and just, ironically, ran out of fuel and crashed there by chance.
>>Doubtful when the info the government has indicates the airplane was apparently intact and operating for another 7 or so hours.<<
Did the story say what time she supposedly saw the plane in the water? We know the plane was in the air over 7 hours, as you say. If she saw it before then, clearly it wasn’t the plane.
My Theory: 1. It was a hijacking for the Chinese islamic group wouling with the pilot. 2. They were to fly to Sirlanka (formerly Celon) land in Tamil Tiger controlled country. 3. The passesgers got wind of it—stormed the cocpit of the plane and it went down in the Indian Oceam.