Missing plane, extensive research west of Malaysia. The theory of hijacking is strengthened, the objective unknown

KUALA LUMPUR – The searches for the Boeing 777 of Malaysian Airlines Kuala Lumpur-Beijing, vanished with no more than 239 people on board since Saturday , have been extended to the west of the Malay peninsula. Transport Minister Hishammuddin Hussein announced this yesterday during the press conference in which he had called “incorrect” the information on the basis of which the Wall Street Journal had confirmed the hypothesis of a possible hijacking of flight MH370. That, according to American experts covered by anonymity charged with investigating the incident, once disappeared from the radar of the air traffic controllers, would have turned west and continued for hours, at least four, on its journey, with a range of at least 2000 miles. At the same time, the Malaysian transport minister had defined the hypothesis as “sustainable”.

Whether or not there is anything more than the mere admissibility of that hypothesis, the expansion of research into the Indian Ocean is a fact. The area patrolled until yesterday exceeded 90 thousand square kilometers, but did not lead to any result. “The aircraft has not yet been found, and the research area has been extended,” Minister Hussein said today, “with our international partners, we expand our research eastward into the South China Sea, and westward in the Indian Ocean “.

To confirm the hypothesis of the change of course was also the head of the military aviation of Malaysia, which last Wednesday had revealed how the flight MH370 had been traced by the radar of the armed forces for an hour after the disappearance from the screens of the controllers of airport flights, also highlighting the westward turn in that case. However, the general had spoken of an unidentified flying object that could have

The head of the military aviation had explained that that flying object had been followed until 2.15 am local time, more than an hour after the disappearance from the civil detection systems, 200 miles north-west of the island of Penang, along the Malaysian west coast. That is, according to an anonymous source close to the investigators, at the extreme western limit granted to the action of military radars. This is also the reason why the transport minister Hussein called for the cooperation of neighboring countries to complete the design of that route.

Today, from sources close to the investigations, that trace is also strengthened. The military radars would have actually followed the path of the MH370 flight, first on its route to the northeast in the direction of Beijing, then they would have recorded the sharp turn to the west. A deliberate, voluntary and even precise maneuver, which according to investigators reinforces the idea of ​​hijacking. Because, following its new and unexpected course, the MH370 flight surgically slipped into the corridors normally used by airline pilots in connections with the Middle East and Europe.

Two sources of the investigation explain that, in the stretch followed by military radars, the aircraft oriented itself precisely with the customary reference points in navigation. This means that at the controls of the Boeing were still his pilots or someone expert to the point of knowing the rules followed professionally in the calculation of longitude and latitude. The plane, to be precise, would have headed towards the Andaman Islands through a corridor that would be invisible to profane eyes. A third source states that the investigations are increasingly focusing on this theory. And we need to understand for what purpose did someone take control: sabotage or hijacking?

March 14, 2014