>>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.
Yes it does. She says it was about 2:30PM local on the 8thn so the airplane would have been in the water “somewhere.” However, she claims the object was silver and shiny and the Indians have been all over that region twice now and have found absolutely nothing.