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Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 Probe Sharpens Focus on Sabotage
The investigation into the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines 3786.KU +2.13%
Flight 370 sharpened its focus on sabotage, according to aviation and
industry officials, amid strong indications that one or more people on the
plane deliberately changed its course and tried to mask its location.
Officials suspect two different systems were shut off after the plane took
off last weekend, one shortly after the other, people familiar with the
investigation said. About an hour into the flight, the plane's transponders
stopped functioning, making it much more difficult for air-traffic control
personnel to track or identify it via radar.
In the ensuing minutes, a second system sent a routine aircraft-monitoring
message to a satellite indicating that someone made a manual change in the
plane's direction, veering sharply to the west. Such a turn wouldn't have
been part of the original authorized route programmed in the flight-
management computer that controls the autopilot. Those system-monitoring
messages are suspected to have been disabled shortly afterward, according to
some of these people. |
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