The Malaysian prime minister has said that new information tells with
a "high degree of certainty" that communications of the plane that went
missing a week ago was disabled just before the aircraft reached the
east coast of Malaysia.
Prime Minister Najib Razak said in the news conference on Saturday
that the movements of the aircraft were "consistent with deliberate
actions" by someone on the plane.
In only his second public statement since the jet went missing on
March 8, Razak said investigators were looking into all possible
scenarios of the plane's disaperrance and that he hoped the latest information would lead to a breakthrough.
Razak said: "We have put our national security second to the search
for the plane. This has been a situation without precedent. At every
stage we have acted on the basis of verified information and we followed
every credible lead. Sometimes these leads have led nowhere."
"There has been intense speculation.
On behalf of those watching we have a responsibility to the
investigation to only release information that has been corroborated."
Based on new information from Malaysian authorities and their
international partners, said Razak, the plane's last communication with
satellites was in one of two possible 'corridors'.
The first was a northern corridor stretching
approximately from the border of Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan to northern
Thailand. The second was a southern corridor stretching approximately
from Indonesia to the southern Indian Ocean.
Source: Al Jazeera
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