Malaysia Officials open criminal inquiry into missing jet
The search for Flight 370 turned into a criminal investigation on Saturday, after Malaysia declared that the plane had been deliberately diverted and then flown for as long as seven hours toward an unknown point that was far from the scheduled route (Kuala Lumpur to Beijing). Prime Minister of Malaysia said that he would seek the help of governments across a large expanse of Asia in search for the Beoing 777, which has been missing for a week and had 239 people on board. A satellite orbiting 22,250 miles over the middle of the Indian Ocean received the transmission that, based on the angle from which the plane sent it, came from somewhere along one of the two arcs. One arc runs from the southern border of Kazakhstan in Central Asia to northern Thailand, passing over some hot spots of global insurgency and highly militarized areas. The other arc runs from near Jakarta to the Indian Ocean, roughly 1,000 miles off the west coast of Australia. The plane changed it's course after it took off and the movements of the plane were deliberate actions taken by someone on the plane. The communications system on the plane was disabled as the plane flew over the northeast coast of Malaysia. Also, a transponder aboard the plane abruptly stopped broadcasting its location, altitude, speed and other information while the plane was flying across the Gulf of Thailand. Military radar data shows that the plane turned and flew west across northern Malaysia before arcing out over the wide northern end of the Strait of Malacca, headed at a cruising altitude for the Indian Ocean. The flight was scheduled to land at 6:30 a.m. in Beijing, so when the last signal was received at 8:11 a.m., the plane could have been nearly out of fuel. The search for the jet that took a mysterious course continues.
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