Malaysian Airliner hijacked, say investigators

Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak said investigators now know that the missing Malaysian airliner’s communications were deliberately disabled and that it turned back from its flight to Beijing and flew across Malaysia.

Najib also said on Saturday that the authorities are now trying to trace the airplane across two possible “corridors” - a northern corridor from the border of Kazakstan and Turkmenistan through to northern Thailand, and a southern corridor from Indonesia to the southern Indian Ocean.

He said that the expanded search area was based on the latest available satellite data.

“Clearly the search for MH370 has entered a new phase,” he said. “We hope this new information brings us one step closer to finding the plane.” India Today