(CNN) -- The Malaysian Prime Minister stopped short of calling the disappearance of Flight 370 a hijacking, but he said Saturday that the jet veered off course, likely due to deliberate action taken by someone aboard. With that revelation on Day 8, the search for the missing Malaysian Airlines plane refocused on the crew and passengers and widened to a larger swath of geography. The passenger jetliner disappeared March 8, en route from the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, China. Evidence is consistent with someone acting deliberately from inside the plane, Prime Minister Najib Razak said, officially confirming the planes disappearance was not caused by an accident. Despite media reports that the plane was hijacked, we are investigating all major possibilities on what caused MH370 to deviate, he said. Military radar showed the jetliner flew in a westerly direction back over the peninsula before turning northwest toward the Bay of Bengal or southwest into the Indian Ocean, Najib said. Up until the point at which it left military primary radar coverage, these movements are consistent with deliberate action by someone on the plane, he said. Investigators, he said, have confirmed by looking at the raw satellite data that the plane in question was the Malaysia Airlines jet. The same conclusion was reached by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration, the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board, the British Air Accidents Investigation Branch and the Malaysian authorities, all of whom were working separately with the same data, he said.
Posted on: Sat, 15 Mar 2014 15:37:23 +0000
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