How come they can't use the same tools available to every CSI program on TV?  Heck, with those they not only would know exactly where the plane is, but they could tell that the passenger sitting in seat 36B dropped their coffee..............
 
Yes and the reality is that the Americans (and probably in conjunction with us too as we both operate a very advanced satellite system at Pine Gap in conjunction with the US) would have known where it went down minutes after but they won't give it up. Under the umbrella of military secrecy. Pretty poor show.
 
Well they seemed to have got to a location which is great. I think the level of co-operation has been amazing. I think some final intel from various sources has come through and hurried the Aussies to the site which is good.

This whole thing has become ridiculously ridiculous.
Or, maybe I just live in a LaLa land created by TV and movies.
But this is the 21st century.
We can't find a Jumbo jet??
Really??
And BTW, where are the submarines?

Heard an aviation expert a week or so ago saying that reality isn't like James Bond movies - we have better maps of other planets than we do of our own oceans.