India on Sunday put on hold its search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, at the request of the government in Kuala Lumpur, which wants to reassess the week-old hunt for the Boeing 777 that is suspected of being deliberately flown off
The data, while incomplete and difficult to interpret, could still provide critical new clues as investigators try to determine what happened on Flight 370.
The news that the satellite and radar data have clearly indicated the plane's automated communications had been disabled and that the plane then turned away from its intended flight path and flown on for hours, gives some ‘ray of hope’ to the
The city police raided Janmabhoomi Express at the Secunderabad Railway Station on Sunday and rescued around 70 bonded labourers. (Photo: DC)
The radar track, which the Malaysian government has not released but says it has provided to the United States and China, showed that the plane then descended unevenly to 23,000 feet, below normal cruising levels, as it approached the densely
The missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 had changed altitudes several times after it last contacted the ground control, a report in the New York Times said.
"The search operation is not over, we are on standby and are awaiting instructions from the Malaysians," said a senior military official in Port Blair, capital of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, an archipelago west of the Malay Peninsula.
Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak said on Saturday the plane appeared to have been deliberately steered off course after someone on board shut down its communications systems.
India had been combing two areas, one around the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, and a second, further west, in the Bay of Bengal. Both operations have been suspended, but may yet resume, defence officials said.
The fate of the flight, with 239 passengers and crew aboard, has been shrouded in mystery since it vanished off Malaysia's east coast less than an hour into a March 8 flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.