“What we can say is we are looking at sabotage, with hijack still on the cards” said a police official not authorized to speak.
This was a very different flight even for a hijacked aircraft because no trace of the plane nor any sign of wreckage has been found. It was invisible for civilian radars and this may be the result of the action of somebody who had turned off its communication systems. The last confirmed position of MH379 flight was at 35,000 feet about 90 miles off the east coast of Malaysia, heading towards Vietnam. Some special signal from the engine’s equipment seems to have existed for hours.
An extended research operation is ongoing with the international participation of thirteen country, including the US. The cost af the operation will exceed the money spent in any other previous accident. “Wherever there is a possibility, we have a duty to investigate it” said the Malaysian transport minister Hishammudin Hussein in the last press statement.
