The Prime Minister of Malaysia, Najib Razak today announced that Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 which has been declared missing left its planned route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing as the result of deliberate action by someone aboard. He also said search efforts in the South China Sea had been ended, and that technical experts now believed the aircraft could have ended up anywhere in one of two zones; one as far north as Kazakhstan in Central Asia, the other crossing the southern Indian Ocean.
The conclusion was based on a final signal from the plane picked up on satellite at 8:11 a.m. on March 8, nearly seven hours after ground control lost contact with the jet, he said.
