Well where it is might be questionable, but the fact that it is intact and that the pilot is alive somewhere are perhaps a reality. From the article:
Investigators have previously refused to “clear” the captain’s flight simulator of suspicious activity, and it now appears they found evidence of routes programmed to take a plane far out into the Indian Ocean and practising landing using a short runway on an island.
A short runway on an island proves this was a deliberate skyjacking. If he wanted to commit murder-suicide he would have taken off and crashed somewhere even in the ocean. The fact that his simulator had this program means, like I already said, NORAD should be on high alert!