2014年CRI 马来西亚总理称失联客机通信系统被人为关闭

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马来西亚总理称失联客机通信系统被人为关闭

Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak says in Kuala Lumpur that investigators¹ have evidence that the missing jet's communications were deliberately² disabled and it turned back from its route to Beijing.

He says Data suggested "with a high degree of certainty" that the plane's two automated³ communication systems were switched off one after the other before it reached the point over the South China Sea where it lost civilian⁴ radar⁵ contact.

The prime minister says the 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 southern corridor from Indonesia to southern Indian Ocean.

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

He denied earlier media report that the plane was hijacked⁶.

A massive international search began initially⁷ in the South China Sea where the plane's transponders stopped transmitting. It has since been expanded onto the other side of the Malay Peninsula up into the Andaman Sea and into the Indian Ocean.