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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMalaysia military says missing jet way off course. Flight path has been determined.
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia Malaysia's military said Tuesday that a missing jet was hundreds of miles off course an hour after it vanished from civilian radar, deepening the mystery of what happened to the flight with 239 people aboard.
Gen. Rodzali Daud told Malaysia's Berita Harian newspaper that military radar picked up the location of the Boeing 777 several hundred miles to the west of its intended flight path to Beijing.
If accurate, that would mean the plane flew for about an hour away in the opposite direction of its flight path without communicating to civilian radar or radio communications.
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Gen. Rodzali Daud told Malaysia's Berita Harian newspaper that military radar picked up the location of the Boeing 777 several hundred miles to the west of its intended flight path to Beijing.
If accurate, that would mean the plane flew for about an hour away in the opposite direction of its flight path without communicating to civilian radar or radio communications.
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http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2014/03/11/malaysia-airlines-investigation/6282557/
And here is image of flight path:
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Malaysia military says missing jet way off course. Flight path has been determined. (Original Post)
DesMoinesDem
Mar 2014
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Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)1. Moscow? I don't get the joke...
DesMoinesDem
(1,569 posts)5. FFS, it shows the countries the plane flew over.
Trajan
(19,089 posts)2. So, the plane flew to Moscow?
Hmmm ..
LumosMaxima
(585 posts)3. Good one! nt
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)4. ROFL!
Someone may have to post a link to that old thread.