There is no doubt in my mind that there are those in the US Govt floating the Pakistan rumor.
It could be disinformation.
Your scenario is possible.
Though, I dont know why we would cover for China unless it is because we owe them so much money.
I saw something interesting about Saudi Arabia making a whole flight disappear. Not the plane itself..but all info. Cant remember the details.
There is something might important being covered up to garner this much cooperation between States.
Covering for China? The US wouldn’t be covering for China, merely holding off on airing suspicions which (if false, or even if true) would damage relations for decades. Once the plane is found in the South China Sea, the jig will be up, because it will be clear that it was shot down. So, we hear about a lot of rumors, which are probably all arising on their own, as they always do in large mysteries and tragedies, and until something real is found, that’s all there will be. If wreckage is never found, that’s all there ever *will* be.
The phony Uighur claim should have been enough to tip off everyone, and I think that was an overplayed hand — notice how that just dropped off the face of the Earth? Guy on an oil rig sees a plane blow up in midair, it is verified, then the whole thing blows over?
No sign of anything wrong, then the last transmission, calm as prozac, and then, surprise surprise, two of the plane’s automatic systems shut down one at a time — an outcome that wouldn’t be inconsistent with a shootdown, what with some temporarily floating debris sinking at different points and times.
Ten days go by, the Thai gov’t talks about some radar data that so far no one else has seen, almost as if it had been manufactured under threat, or had been the product of some electronic spoofing by the Chinese to lay down some disinfo.
Then, a headline-hungry serial publicity hound starts a drumbeat about Pakistan...