Malaysian PM: Missing Plane Deliberately Diverted, Could Be in Huge Central Asian or Indian Ocean Area
Photo Caption: The Prime Minister of Malaysia Najib Razak, at the press conference today.
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We are nowhere near any of the answers, except for one: this was deliberate.
The Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak's press conference today was a packed one, and everyone understood the import of it: the hunt for the missing Malaysian flight MH370 is now entering a whole new phase, and all the clues based on existing data have been exhausted.
The conclusion: The plane was diverted deliberately, though no information is available beyond that, and he stressed it can't be called a "hijacking", at least not yet, based on available facts.
The other main point is that the plane could be anywhere in two separate corridors over a huge geographic area: "The aviation authorities of Malaysia and their international counterparts have determined that the plane’s last communication with the satellite was in one of two possible corridors: a northern corridor stretching approximately from the border of Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan to northern Thailand, or a southern corridor stretching approximately from Indonesia to the southern Indian ocean. The investigation team