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Saturday, 15 March 2014

U.S. says missing Malaysian jet could be 'act of PIRACY': Evidence shows plane changed direction and climbed to 45,000 feet 'under command of a pilot' after tracking devices were manually disabled

Daily Mail: A U.S. official has said investigators are examining the possibility that the disappearance of a Malaysia Airlines jet was 'an act of piracy'.

Key evidence for 'human intervention' is that even after the plane's transponder ceased contact an hour into the flight, a routine monitoring system sent a message to a satellite indicating that the plane had turned to the west in a dramatic change of direction - before that system, too, was disabled. While theories continue to swirl round the vanishing of flight MH370, the probe has sharpened its focus on sabotage. 'Increasingly, it seems to be heading into the criminal arena,' former member of the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board Richard Healing told the Wall Street Journal. He said the latest theories 'indicate the emphasis is on determining if a hijacker or crew member diverted the plane.' New Malaysian military radar evidence shows the plane climbed to 45,000ft - 2,000ft above a Boeing 777's recommended limit - which could have knocked its passengers unconscious in a deliberate attack.

Other theories state the plane's cargo of highly flammable lithium batteries could have ignited, that it was crashed as a pilot's suicide or even that it landed safely in a secret location...read more>>>...