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Malaysian PM Declares Missing Aircraft Deliberately Diverted
Malaysia’s Prime Minister Najib Razak confirmed in a media conference Saturday that investigations into the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 were now focussed on a deliberate diversion from its intended flight to Beijing. While not completely ruling out alternative explanations, he declared that MH 370’s movements were “consistent with deliberate action by someone on the plane.”
In a further press briefing yesterday, Malaysian Defence Minister Hishammuddin Hussein, who is also acting transport minister, confirmed that two satellite communication systems on the plane had stopped transmitting at different times—indicating that they had been switched off, rather than had malfunctioned or been destroyed.
MH370 took off from Kuala Lumpur at 12.40 a.m. on Saturday March 8 and headed north with 12 crew and 227 passengers on board. At 1.07 a.m., the plane’s Aircraft Communication Addressing and Reporting System (ACARS) ceased its routine transmissions via satellite of maintenance data. At 1.21 a.m., the transponder used by civilian air traffic controllers to track aircraft stopped functioning. Around the same time, the last verbal message from the cockpit—“All right, good night”—indicated everything was normal as the plane left Malaysian and entered Vietnamese air space.
Source: http://philosophers-stone.co.uk/wordpress/2014/03/malaysian-pm-declares-missing-aircraft-deliberately-diverted/
