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Summary
Today’s key developments
• More than 20 countries have now been briefed after the search area for the plane was widened to two corridors in the last few days. These include countries as far apart as Kazakhstan and Indonesia. Malaysia has requested international help, including satellite and primary radar data.
• One of the plane’s transponder systems was switched off before the last communication from the cockpit - a message saying, “All right, good night”.
• The investigation is refocusing on the backgrounds of the passengers, pilots and even ground staff. The families of the pilot and co-pilot have been interviewed.
• Police are examining a flight simulator belonging to one of the pilots.
• India has suspended its naval and aerial search for the jetliner while it awaits word on fresh search areas from the Malaysian authorities.
Summary
Here’s a summary of the latest developments on the search for the missing plane:
- The FBI and Interpol have been involved in the search for the missing plane since it went missing with 239 on board more than a week ago. The investigators appear to be more convinced that at least someone on board deliberately changed its course. Malaysia has denied that it has turned down offers of help from the FBI.
- The homes of the pilot and co-pilot have been visited twice by the police since the plane went missing. A flight simulator made by the pilot has been recovered from his home. CCTV footage has emerged of the two men passing through airport security before boarding the flight.
- The Malaysian authorities have spread more confusion about the final communication with the missing plane by issuing new details about the timings when contact was lost. They said the plane’s reporting system was switched off at some point between 1.07am and 1.37am on Saturday 8 March. Malaysian Airlines estimates that the plane had enough fuel to have flown on for about 30 minutes after contact was lost.
- Malaysia Airlines said it was investigating claims that the plane was flown as low as 5,000 ft, after changing course, which would have allowed it to avoid detection by radar. The company denied that it had leaked the information but said it was investigating.
- The number of countries involved in the search has increased to 26 as the investigation focuses on two possible flight corridors. One corridor north-west of Malaysia goes over several Asian countries. The other south-west corridor goes over thousands of miles of deep ocean.
- Malaysia’s new conviction that someone on the missing plane deliberately changed its course has heartened some relatives of the passengers. Sarah Bajac, an American teacher in Beijing, has set up a Facebook page in an effort to help track down her husband Philip Wood who is on the plane. She wrote: “The glimmer of hope has become a definable ray. Hostages are far more valuable alive.”
- The Chinese press has published more scathing criticism of the way Malaysia is handling the search operation.Malaysia’s acting transport minister Hishamuddin Hussein defended the search and accused the media of being “very irresponsible” for suggesting mistakes had been made.