point. we ve got some experience of this. air france 457 from brazil up to paris. now, that plane went down over the south atlantic. the wreckage was found within days or at least the jetsom and flotsam was found within days. but it took them many, many months and years, and they had to go back two or three times before they were able to get the cockpit voice recorder and the data recorder, which finally unlocked the mystery of what happened to that a 330. so to answer your question, the flight radar path that i ve seen on flight radar did sort of have this going over the south china sea, and does have it sort of in that vicinity at its last point of contact. so if this did have its incident and did end up in the south china sea, depending on the day,