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Published: March 15, 2014 12:12 IST | Updated: March 15, 2014 15:44 IST

Plane's disappearance deliberate: Malaysian PM

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Not ruling out a hijack, Malaysia on Saturday said the movement of the missing Flight MH370 with 239 peoboard was consistent with deliberate action by someone on plane.

Prime Minister Najib Razak said authorities are now trying to trace the plane across two possible corridors

north to the border of Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan, and a southern corridor from Indonesia to the southerOcean.

Based on new satellite communication we can say with a high degree of certainty that the aircraft communiaddressing system was disabled just before the aircraft reached the east coast of Malaysia, Mr. Najib told rat a press conference in Kuala Lumpur.

He said the aircrafts transponder was switched off shortly afterwards when the plane was between the bordMalaysian and Vietnamese air traffic control.

Radar data showed that from this point onwards a plane believed to be MH370 did turn back and turned bwesterly direction before turning north west.

These were deliberate actions of someone on plane, he said, but stopped short of saying the aircraft had behijacked.

The last satellite communication was at 8.11 a.m. (local time) on March 8, he said, suggesting that the plathe air for 7.5 hours after it lost the control.

The plane had left Kuala lumpur for Beijing at 12:41 a.m. and lost contact with civilian radar an hour later.

Despite the media reports of hijacking, I am very clear we are still looking into all possibilities, he said.

The Prime Minister said that based on the raw satellite radar it could be confirmed that the aircraft whichspotted an hour after it vanished from the civilian radar and seen on the militarys primary radar was indeemissing Malaysian plane Boeing 777 Flight MH370.

Mr. Najib said there will be a refocus on investigation on crew and passengers.

Clearly the search for MH370 has entered a new phase, he said. We hope this new information brings uscloser to finding the plane.

He said, We are ending our operation in the South China Sea and reassessing the deployment of our assets.

There has been no trace of the plane nor any sign of wreckage despite a search by the navies and military aircountries across Southeast Asia that involve 43 ships and 58 aircraft.

Keywords: Malaysia Airlines, Interpol, MH 370, Malaysia Airlines plane crash, seafloor event, Malaysiancrash, Malaysian plane mystery

Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak, centre, Malaysia's Minister for TransportHishamuddin Hussein, left, and Director General of the Malaysian Department ofCivil Aviation, Azharuddin Abdul Rahman, address the media in Sepang, Malaysia,on Saturday.

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