Huge Revelations About What Likely Happened Aboard Missing Plane Announced by Malaysia Prime Minister

Story by the Associated Press; curated by Oliver Darcy.

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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak says investigators now know that the missing Malaysian airliner's communications were deliberately disabled and that it turned back from its flight to Beijing and flew across Malaysia.

Najib also said Saturday that authorities are now trying to trace the airplane across two possible "corridors" — a northern corridor from the border of Kazakstan and Turkmenistan through to northern Thailand, and a southern corridor from Indonesia to the southern Indian Ocean.

He says that expanded search area is based on the latest available satellite data.

"Clearly the search for MH370 has entered a new phase," he said. "We hope this new information brings us one step closer to finding the plane."

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