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BREAKING and UPDATED: US Officials Believe Malaysian Air Flight 370 May Have Been Hijacked ‘For Later Use’

UPDATE - This story is being denied by multiple sources now.

I DON'T BELIEVE THE DENIALS.

Here's one: MAS: Boeing, RR deny getting MH370 data bursts

The origin of this story was the Wall Street Journal. Hardly a paper that plays loose with the truth, or jumps on crazy theories.

Here's an NPR interview with the WSJ reporter who wrote this story

And here's another UPDATE

Officials Now Searching INDIAN OCEAN, India, China, Australia for Missing Flight #MH370 (Video)

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Reports are surfacing that Malaysian Air flight 370 was airborne at least 4 additional hours after it went missing from radar.

Officials suspect that the plane flew for a total of five hours based on data automatically downloaded and sent back to Rolls Royce – the manufacturers of the Boeing 777′s engines. US counter-terrorism teams are now pursuing the astonishing possibility that the plane and its 239 passengers was diverted to an undisclosed location ‘with the intention of using it later for another purpose’. [LINK]

EPASEZ: Say, what IS the range of a fully loaded 777?

The Wall Street Journal broke the new developments after talking with two unofficial sources familiar with the American investigation - raising a whole new raft of questions about what happened to the jet which disappeared seemingly without trace from radar at around 1.30 am early on Saturday morning en-route to Beijing.

Government terrorism experts are now examining the possibility that the pilot or somebody else turned the plane's transponders off to avoid detection and flew it to another country.

A total flight time of five hours upon leaving Kuala Lumpur means that the Boeing 777 would have been able to remain airborne for an additional 2,200 nautical miles at its air-speed - which put the border of Pakistan and the Arabian Sea within its reach. officials are working on the suspicion that the plane's engines were operating for four more hours following its last recorded sighting on radar.

This has caused enormous uncertainty over the final destination of the aircraft - in addition to why it flew for so long without operating its transponders.

One working theory from counter-terror officials is that the plane was taken over for an as-yet unknown purpose.

- Malaysia Airlines Flight 370: Gov't Releases Raw Satellite Data Linked To Plane's Path
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- Malaysiatoday 3/18: Cops Find Five Indian Ocean Practice Runways In Mh370 Pilot’s Simulator, Bh Reports
From Malaysia Today: (MM) - Investigators have discovered the runways of five airports near the Indian Ocean loaded into Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah’s home-made flight simulator, a Malay daily reported today. An unnamed source told Berita Harian...

- Malaysian Air Flight #mh370 Could Have Flown To Taliban-controlled Region In Pakistan
Russia Today reported:Malaysia is reportedly investigating a theory that flight MH370 could have slipped under Pakistani radars and landed a Taliban base close to the Afghan border. The pilots’ possible role in the plane’s disappearance is also...

- Breaking: Investigators Confirm Malaysian Jet Was Hijacked
This just came out: http://www.latimes.com/world/worldnow/la-fgw-wn-malaysia-plane-hijacking-20140314,0,356436.story#axzz2w09bVhiw The article says: KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — A Malaysian government official says investigators have concluded that one...

- Reuters Exclusive: Radar Data Suggests Missing Malaysia Plane Deliberately Flown Way Off Course - Sources
Pakistan! From Reuters: (Reuters) - Military radar data suggests a Malaysia Airlines jetliner missing for nearly a week was deliberately flown hundreds of miles off course, heightening suspicions of foul play among investigators, sources told Reuters...

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