Military officials are now releasing radar information that shows the missing Malaysia Airlines flight likely was flown hundreds of miles off course leading investigators to believe foul play was the cause of the disappearance.
The military track shows the plane turned west after leaving Malaysia on a corridor that is usually seen for flights that would be heading to the Middle East.
Aviation experts say the path of the flight was carrying it between navigational waypoints leaving it undetected to most of the current systems in place to track aircraft. The flight was tracked by military radar off the country’s northwest coast, hundreds of miles from the scheduled flight path.
Military investigators say that shows the pilots of the craft had knowledge of the navigational waypoints.
A senior Malaysian police official said sabotage or hijack are now being considered as the likely reasons for the plane’s sudden change in course.