I honestly believe that this plane is in a hanger someplace. You cannot believe half the crap the media was speculating about. After they lost radar contact there was no way to track that plane.
The BS about tracking a plane by satellite just by intermittent engine packet pings was bogus information. It is imposable determine a fix location without triangulation on a constant signal. Short data bursts would not be long enough to triangulate a position. You would also need a minimum of Three receivers with directional antennas to narrow down the location. Signal strength alone will not give you position.
The fact that transponders and other tracking systems were shut off one by one over time indicates that the people controlling it did not want it to be tracked. Why the hell would they go through all that just to dump it in the ocean? The fact that it was a late night / early morning flight makes in much easier to fly off course. People manning the Air traffic control centers are not staring at there scopes looking for unidentified aircraft with no Identification transponder at that hour. The plane could have easily flown over land to a large enough runway to land it, then hide it in a hanger. Even if it had crashed into the ocean, there would have been a debris field, then some debris would have washed up onto shore by now.