I doubt very much that this was a smokescreen. These types of search expeditions are fabulously expensive, it’s a little surprising that it only cost $11 million tbh. That’s partly why we’re still not searching for MH370 (I think? Idk, too lazy to check); world governments have already spent an ass-ton of money searching for the wreckage without many good clues bring a realistic search zone into focus.
I doubt very much that this was a smokescreen. These types of search expeditions are fabulously expensive, it’s a little surprising that it only cost $11 million tbh. That’s partly why we’re still not searching for MH370 (I think? Idk, too lazy to check); world governments have already spent an ass-ton of money searching for the wreckage without many good clues bring a realistic search zone into focus.