If they were sophisticated enough to steal the airliner for a future surprise event, then they likely would have placed faux wreckage, perhaps even a faux black box in the ocean somewhere to draw the attention away from their surprise intent.
I think I heard this about 48 hours ago.
I agree. It's a major omission.
If an attacker had been motivated and sophisticated enough for all the really delicate stuff, why wouldn't they take the fairly easy step of planting fake stuff out in the most eye-catching search places to give false emotional satisfaction...?
The attackers would have unshakable faith that Malaysia --even if unconvinced-- would liberally splash in front of cameras any physical evidence of "the very sad crash".
In the process providing them COVER.