The suspense regarding the missing Malaysia Airlines jetliner heightened when a military radar data suggested that a jetliner was deliberately flown hundreds of miles off course.
Analysis of the Malaysia Airlines data suggests that the plane diverted from its intended northeast route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing and flew west instead, reports Reuters.
According to the report, it used the airline flight corridors which are normally employed for routes to the Middle East and Europe.
Two sources familiar with investigations into the Boeing 777's disappearance said an unidentified aircraft that investigators believe was Flight MH370 was following on a route between navigational waypoints.
This indicates that the jetliner, with 239 people on board, was either being flown by the pilots or someone with knowledge about those waypoints, the sources said.
The last plot on the military radar's tracking suggested that the plane was flying toward India's Andaman Islands, a chain of isles between the Andaman Sea and the Bay of Bengal, they said.
Waypoints are geographic locations that help pilots navigate along established air corridors. The waypoints are worked out by calculating longitude and latitude.
Another source said inquiries were focusing increasingly on the theory that someone who knew how to fly a plane deliberately diverted the flight.
