It was reported on March 8 that a passenger flight carrying 239 passengers, including five children, from Malaysia had gone missing. For more than 24 hours now, the flight has still not been found.
According to new report by the country’s air force chief, the pilot of Malaysian Airline flight MH370 may have diverted the aircraft’s course before losing contact with the air traffic controllers.
“What we have done is actually look into the recording on the radar that we have and we realized there is a possibility the aircraft did make a turn back,” Rodzali Daud, the Royal Malaysian Air Force chief, said.
Conversely, the flight’s pilot did not inform the air traffic controllers that he was making a u – turn.
Search and rescue teams have focused their search in an area around an oil slick on the ocean between Malaysia and Vietnam where officials believe the plane crashed. However, on the basis of the new report that claims the pilot might have changed direction bolsters fear now; as many believe this puzzling incident could have been an act of terrorism.
The airline has as at now warned families whose relatives may have been on board to prepare for the worst since they have still not found any possible trace to the missing plane.
Authorities have as well confirmed that, the Boeing – 777 (flight MH370) which left Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) and was heading to Beijing (China) had at least two people on board who were travelling on stolen passports.
The Austrian and an Italian governments have debunk earlier reports that claimed an Austrian and an Italian were on flight MH370. The two people who were travelling on the stolen passports were using the identities of an Austrian and an Italian. This has raised concern as to whether these two imposters are terrorists or not.
Although investigations are still underway, many people do not consider the missing of the Malaysian flight MH370 as a tragic accident, but rather an act of terrorism.
The international police agency’s secretary general, Ronald Noble, said it had spent years urging countries to screen all passports systematically . “Now, we have a real case where the world is speculating whether the stolen passport holders were terrorists, while Interpol is asking why only a handful of countries worldwide are taking care to make sure that persons possessing stolen passports are not boarding international flights,” he said
According to the CEO of a Malaysia Airlines subsidiary, the plane was last inspected 10 days ago and was found to be “in proper condition”. It is also reported that the weather was generally good and the plane did not issue a distress signal at the time it disappeared from the radar.
MailOnline is currently reporting that; debris from the missing Boeing 777 flight is believed to have been found off Vietnam. The website wrote;
“A Vietnamese search team has found what they believe is part of a door and an airplane’s tail in the first major breakthrough in the hunt for missing aircraft.
The suspected fragments have been located around 50 miles from south-west of Tho Chu Island, the Wall Street Journal reported.
Investigators are narrowing the focus of their inquiries on the possibility that the plane disintegrated in mid-flight, a senior source said on Sunday”