Malaysia has said there was a 'deliberate action' by someone on board the missing Malaysian Airline flight to divert it from its scheduled flight path.
Malaysia's acting transport minister Hishammuddin Hussein said the plane's movements were consistent with deliberate action by someone on the plane, the Sydney Morning Herald reports.
According to the report, Hussein said international investigators and Malaysian authorities believe the plane was subjected to deliberate action until the time it left military radar.
Meanwhile, the final three seconds of contact between the cockpit of the plane and Kuala Lumpur air traffic control provides no clue as to what happened to the jet, the report added.
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