Sorta begs the question, if it really is the black box, what the heck was the airplane doing waaaaay over there by Australia?
Scuttling the plane as far as possible from where it was diverted in the deepest water where it would likely never be found at the coordinates where a ship was waiting to pick up the pilot.
And while everyone was trying to figure out where it went and arguing over terrorists, fires in the cockpit, landing strips in Pakistan and Diego Garcia, and the lithium batteries and mangosteens onboard, the ship had over a week and now a month to make its getaway.