“Missing Malaysian Plane Diverted By Passenger” – PM Najib Razak Debunks Hijack Rumour

Malaysia's leader Saturday said communications
aboard a missing jet were switched off and its course
deliberately changed by someone on board before
the aircraft disappeared a week ago, but stopped
short of saying it had been hijacked.
Final satellite communication with the Boeing 777
flying from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing came more than
six-and-a-half hours after it vanished from civilian
radar at 1:30am on March 8, Prime Minister Najib
Razak told a nationally televised press conference.
The movement of the plane in the interim period,
during which it changed direction and passed back
over the Malaysian peninsula towards the Indian
Ocean, was "consistent with deliberate action by
someone on the plane," Najib said.
"Despite media reports that the plane was hijacked, I
wish to be very clear: we are still investigating all
possibilities as to what caused MH370 to deviate
from its original flight path," he added.
Najib said his announcement was based on new
information from satellite contact with the plane and
military radar data.
The combined data suggested "with a high degree of
certainty" that the plane's two automated
communications systems — Aircraft Communications
Addressing and Reporting System (ACARS) and its
transponder — were "switched off" one after the
other before it reached the point over the South
China Sea where it dropped out of civilian radar
contact.
It then turned back and flew in a westerly direction
back over peninsular Malaysia before turning
northwest.
The last confirmed communication between the
plane and satellite was at 8:11 am, Najib said,
adding that investigators were calculating how far
the aircraft may have flown afterwards.
So far, experts had located the last point of
communication as being inside one of two large
geographical corridors: a northern corridor stretching
from the border of Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan to
northern Thailand, and a southern corridor stretching
from Indonesia to the southern Indian ocean.
"This new satellite information has a significant
impact on the nature and scope of the search
operation," the prime minister said.
"We are ending our operations in the South China
Sea and reassessing the redeployment of our assets.
We are working with the relevant countries to
request all information relevant to the search,
including radar data," he added.
Sent From David Aniemeka