I found this information to further add to the intrigue of the airliner that disappeared. I am not bothering to format it. It came to my inbox. -Sharda-
Missing Malaysia Airlines Plane: Military tracked flight MH370 to West before it Vanished
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-03-12/malaysian-military-denies-detecting-missing-plane/5314212
The Malaysian air force says radar information indicates a passenger plane veered off course and headed west before it vanished with 239 people on board. Interpol has all but ruled out terrorism as the cause for the missing Malaysia Airlines plane, which disappeared on Saturday while travelling from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, but the CIA is not so sure.
In one of the most baffling mysteries in recent aviation
history, a massive search operation has so far found no trace of the aircraft
or its passengers, six of whom were Australian. Malaysian authorities have
previously said flight MH370 disappeared about an hour after it took off from
Kuala Lumpur for the Chinese capital Beijing.
"It changed course after Kota Bharu and took a lower
altitude. It made it into the Malacca Strait," a senior military officer,
who has been briefed on investigations, told Reuters. That would appear to rule
out sudden catastrophic mechanical failure, as it would mean the plane flew
around 500 kilometres at least after its last contact with air traffic control,
although its transponder and other tracking systems were off. The effect
of turning off the transponder is to make the aircraft inert to secondary
radar, so civil controllers cannot identify it.
