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Missing Flight MH370
Malaysian PM fears sabotage
Jetliner may have crashed into Bay of Bengal or Indian Ocean, say investigators
TNS & Agencies

Indonesian rescue personnel during a search operation. AFP

New Delhi/Kuala Lumpur, Mar 15
The missing jetliner was likely steered deliberately to a course that could have taken it anywhere from central Asia to the southern Indian Ocean, Malaysiam Prime Minister Najib Razak said on Saturday, in a dramatic revelation that intensified scrutiny of the 239 crew and passengers. The Indian Navy and the Air Force have stepped up efforts to locate the plane.

Hours after Razak’s statement, CNN reported that flight MH370 may have crashed either in the Bay of Bengal or in the Indian Ocean. "CNN has learned that a classified analysis of electronic and satellite data suggests the flight likely crashed either in the Bay of Bengal or elsewhere in the Indian Ocean," the channel reported. Ahead of Najib's announcement, US officials told the channel that flight MH370 made drastic changes in altitude and direction after disappearing from civilian radar. The changes raised questions on who was at the controls of the Boeing 777-200 ER jetliner when it vanished on March 8. The more the United States learns about the flight's pattern, "the more difficult to write off" the idea that some type of human intervention was involved, an official familiar with the investigation was quoted as saying.

After Razak outlined investigators' latest findings about flight MH370 at a news conference, the police began searching the house of the aircraft's 53-year-old captain for any evidence that he could have been involved in foul play. He said the plane's final communication with satellites placed it somewhere in one of two corridors: a northern corridor stretching from northern Thailand to Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan border, or a southern corridor stretching from Indonesia to southern Indian Ocean.