Investigators focus on foul play behind missing plane-sources

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http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/14/us-malaysiaairlines-flight-idUSBREA2701720140314

Investigators focus on foul play behind missing plane-sources
By Niluksi Koswanage and Siva Govindasamy
KUALA LUMPUR Fri Mar 14, 2014 7:50am EDT

(Reuters) - An investigation into the disappearance of a Malaysia Airlines jetliner is focusing more on a suspicion of foul play, as evidence suggests it was diverted hundreds of miles off course, sources familiar with the Malaysian probe said.

In a far more detailed description of military radar plotting than has been publicly revealed, two sources told Reuters an unidentified aircraft that investigators suspect was missing Flight MH370 appeared to be following a commonly used navigational route when it was last spotted early on Saturday, northwest of Malaysia.

That course - headed into the Andaman Sea and towards the Bay of Bengal in the Indian Ocean - could only have been set deliberately, either by flying the Boeing 777-200ER jet manually or by programming the auto-pilot.

A third investigative source said inquiries were focusing more on the theory that someone who knew how to fly a plane deliberately diverted the flight hundreds of miles off its scheduled course from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.

[morningfog]

1. It seems like the investigators are closing in on Andaman Sea/Andaman Islands.

[Earth_First]

2. Some sources say:

[freshwest]

3. Another thread in the mystery. n/t