Every seat cushion is a flotation device.
If the aircraft stayed intact and floating, the ELT should have started transmitting.
I do think the search is in the wrong area.
It seems that with this B-777 everything went wrong and the probability of that is very remote so my suspicion is that whatever happened was planned and deliberate.
- No Mayday call,
- Transponders turned OFF,
- Malaysian military tracking the aircraft to the Malacca Straits,
- No debris field reported anywhere,
One theory I heard today was that the aircraft continued and crashed in the Vietnamese jungle. Possible but then there's that ELT thingy.
Don't know, but I suspect foul play.
FWIW, $.02