Malaysia Airlines Investigation Focused On Foul Play, Search Expands To Andaman Islands

Investigators trying to find the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 are focused on foul play, following revelations that the plane carrying 239 souls traveled for hours after it disappeared from radar.

Almost a week after the airliner vanished into thin air there are more questions than answers, after a massive multi-national effort using the latest technology has turned up absolutely nothing.

One thing is becoming increasingly clear, either the pilot or someone in the cockpit turned off the transponder, which indicates location, speed, and direction of the aircraft about an hour into the flight.

There was no distress call from the captain, as a matter of fact the last calm words air traffic controllers heard him utter were, “All right, good night” as the plane entered Vietnamese waters, The Inquisitr reported earlier.

In the beginning it was believed that the plane crashed over the South China Sea at the point were the last contact took place, however, recent reports have surfaced indicating the plane continued to travel for hours after that time.

In a report published on Thursday, The Wall Street Journal says that US investigators have obtained evidence gathered from “analysis of signals sent through the Boeing 777’s satellite-communication link,” which indicates that the Malaysia Airlines flight continued traveling for about four hours and approximately 2,500 nautical miles.

The report initially said that the information was gathered from the “data sent by the plane’s Rolls-Royce engines” however, on Friday it issued a statement making the correction.

The radius in which the missing plane could be goes as far as the Indian Ocean, northern Australia, and Pakistan, making it almost impossible to cover.

Investigators believe the flight was purposely diverted — for unknown reasons — thousands of miles off course and landed at a location different from its original destination, Beijing.

Reuters is reporting that in a very detailed description of information detected by military radar an unidentified aircraft — that investigators suspect was the missing Malaysia Airlines flight — appeared to be following a commonly used navigational route when it was last spotted early on Saturday, northwest of Malaysia.

That route took the plane into the Andaman Sea and towards the Bay of Bengal in the Indian Ocean and could have only been set purposely, either by flying the Malaysia Airlines plane manually or by programming the auto-pilot, two sources told the news agency.

A third source said the probe is focusing more on the possibility that someone, who had training experience flying a 777, took the Malaysia Airlines flight off its intended course from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.

“What we can say is we are looking at sabotage, with hijack still on the cards,” said a senior Malaysian police official.

This new information would support reports on Friday that investigators are looking into a Uighur — a Chinese Muslim — with flight training who was on board the doomed flight. The Uighurs have been involved in recent bombings such as the one that happened in Tiananmen Square, China in November of 2013.

The website PamelaGeller.com reported that a jihadist convicted of plotting attacks on aircrafts confessed that he gave explosives to a Malaysian terror cell which included a pilot.

All this only serves to thicken the plot in the case of the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight 370, which is becoming one of the greatest mysteries in the history of aviation and follows news that the search has once again expanded to include the Andaman Islands, a heavily wooded, mostly uninhabited archipelago which is where the plane is believed to have been headed to.

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