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Map: Malaysia Airlines Flight 370



Bombshell: Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 likely redirected in protest of oppressive government that imprisons people for being gay: analysis

The Mirror now reports that "the pilot's wife and three children moved out of the family's home the day before the plane's disappearance."

MH370 picture exclusive: Pilot wears anti-government slogan t-shirt amid fears he hijacked missing jet
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/missing-malaysian-airlines-flight-mh370-3248001

The pilot of the missing Malaysia Airlines jet is pictured in a T-shirt with a Democracy is Dead slogan as fears emerge he could have hijacked the plane as an anti-government protest.

Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah was a fervent supporter of his country's opposition leader who was jailed for homosexuality - illegal in Malaysia - only hours before flight MH370 vanished with 239 passengers and crew on board, the Sunday Mirror can reveal.

And in a new twist, it emerged that the pilot's wife and three children moved out of the family's home the day before the plane's disappearance.



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Landing sites: The red dots show all the places MH370 could have landed within the search area

Investigators believe someone with flying experience took the cockpit controls and steered Flight MH370 off its planned route.

A Malaysian government official said the hijacking theory was now "conclusive".

Radar tracks show the plane climbing and descending in unusual patterns, which should have alerted air traffic controllers that something was wrong.

MH370 flew to 45,000ft - almost 2,000ft above what Boeing says is its maximum recommended height - before descending to 23,000ft.

It changed course at least twice from its scheduled route - first to fly west back towards Malaysia and then north west into one of two air lanes used by commercial planes.

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Search area west of Australia
http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2014/03/world/malaysia-flight-map/

Although the search area spans a vast area of nearly 3 million square miles, a U.S. government official familiar with the investigation said the plane is most likely somewhere on the southern end of the search area.
"This is an area out of normal shipping lanes, out of any commercial flight patterns, with few fishing boats, and there are no islands," the official said, warning that the search could well last "weeks and not days."
Australia said Wednesday, March 19 that the area of the southern Indian Ocean where it is searching for the plane has been "significantly refined."
The new area is based on work done by the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board on "the fuel reserves of the aircraft and how far it could have flown," said John Young of the Australian Maritime Safety Authority.

That's a much smaller search area than anything I've seen before.................................maybe in a few weeks.............

Missing flight simulator data probed in Malaysia Flight 370 disappearance
By Michael Pearson and Pamela Brown, CNN
updated 1:37 PM EDT, Wed March 19, 2014
http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/19/world/asia/malaysia-airlines-plane/

Although the search area spans a vast area of nearly 3 million square miles, a U.S. government official familiar with the investigation said the plane is most likely somewhere on the southern end of the search area.

"This is an area out of normal shipping lanes, out of any commercial flight patterns, with few fishing boats, and there are no islands," the official said, warning that the search could well last "weeks and not days."

The official's comments echo earlier analysis by U.S. officials saying the most likely location for the missing aircraft is on the bottom of the Indian Ocean.