Mr Sandman,
I would love to go with the theory that they put it down where they did deliberately - and it may yet come to be proved so.
I repeat, though, that this is somewhat unlikely, seeing as they couldn't, in the 30 mins from Bahrain FIR to OMDB, see enough to attempt a frequency change.
I have no doubt that these guys did an amazing job to get as far as they did - but I really don't think that anything visual was ever on the cards.
Guy.