This case smelled so fishy right from the start that imo everything they let us know so far is nothing but a lie.
I would bet anything they will NEVER find it.
i 've read your previous comment that there should have been inside info from US satellites as to where it actually is.
That's quite logical.
However in view of what happened so far, the so many lies and more likely to be deliberate efforts to direct the search to the most convenient place....
I am convinced the new search will end to nothing more than another waste of money through which some people will get rich at the expense of the Australian taxpayers.
I think you are reading more into this than there is, which is understandable as we know so little about what happened. I don’t think ‘they’ are telling us lies ........ but I do think we are not being told the truth! Same situation as with events associated with 9/11? But there are those among us who just accept what they are told without question!
The puzzling thing, and what made me think they had more information than was released, Is that this search team is taking a big gamble that is time limited and could end in failure. If it does they get nothing! So my suspicion is they know more than they are letting on .... and the only source is US satellites/intelligence.
It is certainly a very strange case as, apart from the Captain (or maybe the first officer) being a religious nut case, there seems to be no motive.