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A Malaysian government official says investigators have concluded the missing Malaysia Airlines plane was hijacked.
The official said no motive has been established and it is not yet clear where the plane was taken, but he said hijacking was "conclusive".
Malaysia's prime minister is due to give a news conference at around 0500gmt.
Satellite pulses picked up from the missing Malaysia Airlines plane show it may have been flying off course for several hours before running out of fuel over the Indian Ocean, according to a source close to the investigation.
Analysis of military radar tracking and pulses detected by satellites has provided two different theories as to what may have happened to Flight MH370 from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, the unnamed source said.
The electronic signals are believed to have been transmitted for up to five hours after ground control lost contact with the aircraft, according to Sky sources.
The signals are 'pings' sent by the plane to confirm it is still there and to allow the network to determine its position.
Sky correspondent Niall Paterson said: "If this information is accurate, for those five hours at the very least, that flight was not crashed, it was in some sense flying through the air."
The source close to the investigation said the most likely possibility is that after travelling northwest, the Boeing 777-200ER made a sharp turn to the south, over the Indian Ocean where officials think, based on the data, it flew until it ran out of fuel and crashed into the sea.
The other interpretation is that Flight MH370 continued to fly to the northwest and headed over Indian territory.
But the source said it was believed unlikely that the plane flew for any length of time over India because that country has strong air defence and radar coverage and that should have allowed authorities there to see the plane.
Malaysia's acting transport minister Hishammuddin Hussein has confirmed the search had been expanded into the Indian Ocean - on the opposite side of Malaysia from where contact with the jet was lost nearly a week ago.
He also said there was evidence of a plane turning back, but it may not have been the missing flight.
"What we can say is we are looking at sabotage, with hijack still on the cards," a Malaysian police source said.
There has been no sight of flight MH-370 or the 239 people on board since contact was lost with it last Saturday.
The disappearance of the Boeing 777 or the 239 people on board since contact was lost with it last Saturday is shaping into one of the most baffling mysteries in aviation history.
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A Malaysian government official says investigators have concluded the missing Malaysia Airlines plane was hijacked.
The official said no motive has been established and it is not yet clear where the plane was taken, but he said hijacking was "conclusive".
Malaysia's prime minister is due to give a news conference at around 0500gmt.
Satellite pulses picked up from the missing Malaysia Airlines plane show it may have been flying off course for several hours before running out of fuel over the Indian Ocean, according to a source close to the investigation.
Analysis of military radar tracking and pulses detected by satellites has provided two different theories as to what may have happened to Flight MH370 from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, the unnamed source said.
The electronic signals are believed to have been transmitted for up to five hours after ground control lost contact with the aircraft, according to Sky sources.
The signals are 'pings' sent by the plane to confirm it is still there and to allow the network to determine its position.
Sky correspondent Niall Paterson said: "If this information is accurate, for those five hours at the very least, that flight was not crashed, it was in some sense flying through the air."
The source close to the investigation said the most likely possibility is that after travelling northwest, the Boeing 777-200ER made a sharp turn to the south, over the Indian Ocean where officials think, based on the data, it flew until it ran out of fuel and crashed into the sea.
The other interpretation is that Flight MH370 continued to fly to the northwest and headed over Indian territory.
But the source said it was believed unlikely that the plane flew for any length of time over India because that country has strong air defence and radar coverage and that should have allowed authorities there to see the plane.
Malaysia's acting transport minister Hishammuddin Hussein has confirmed the search had been expanded into the Indian Ocean - on the opposite side of Malaysia from where contact with the jet was lost nearly a week ago.
He also said there was evidence of a plane turning back, but it may not have been the missing flight.
"What we can say is we are looking at sabotage, with hijack still on the cards," a Malaysian police source said.
There has been no sight of flight MH-370 or the 239 people on board since contact was lost with it last Saturday.
The disappearance of the Boeing 777 or the 239 people on board since contact was lost with it last Saturday is shaping into one of the most baffling mysteries in aviation history.