Get your facts straight.
The ".gov" did not find the likely crash site. That was done by those in private industry -- by scientists at Inmarsat and Boeing operating with verifiable data and well-known scientific principles.
It's the General that you blindly trust who has worked for ".gov" all his life. So who is really gullible here.
That's because the plane is on Ile Amsterdam, a bit scrapped up by a rough landing.