Which I believe was largely what the first poster was trying to say, albeit he has turned out to be wrong in 2 specific cases
Which happened to be the two specific cases (AF447, MH370) most relevant to this crash, yes -- in addition to the Adam Air accident which showed an actual precedent for SAR funding in Indonesia (funding which was central to recovering the black boxes). And addressing the larger point he was trying to make, re-read my last paragraph.