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◼ CNN Exclusive: Analysis shows two possible Indian Ocean paths for airliner - CNN

Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 made drastic changes in altitude and direction after disappearing from civilian radar, U.S. officials told CNN on Friday, raising questions for investigators about just who was at the controls of the commercial jetliner that went missing one week ago with 239 people on board.

The more the United States learns about the flight's pattern, "the more difficult to write off" the idea that some type of human intervention was involved, one of the officials familiar with the investigation said.

The revelation comes as CNN has learned that a classified analysis of electronic and satellite data suggests the flight likely crashed either in the Bay of Bengal or elsewhere in the Indian Ocean.

DRUDGE:
◼ Missing airliner may have flown on for 7 hours - Washington Post
◼ 'Deliberate Action': Focus Shifts to Passengers, Crew as New Clues Emerge - CNN
◼ 'Conclusive' Someone Hijacked Jet - CBS DC
Malaysian police search home of pilot...
Malaysian plane was 'deliberately' diverted...
'Act of piracy'...
Sharp Changes in Altitude and Course After Jet Lost Contact...
Descended 40,000 feet in minute...
THEORY: Landed on remote island...
Satellite Firm Says Data From Jet Could Offer Location...
Missing airliner reveals huge market for bogus passports...

◼ New information on Flight 370: - Neoneocon
◼ Radar Suggests Jet Shifted Path More Than Once - NY Times
◼ Nothing about Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 makes sense - Neoneocon

I’ve been writing about this story on a daily basis because it’s unusually gripping, with all the elements of a Tom Clancy novel except the author’s explication, or the pleasure of knowing it’s just a story. This is a story, but not just a story; it’s reality, unfortunately for the passengers, their families, and the rest of us. Just as 9/11 was a revelation about what was possible with a bunch of determined and planful terrorists, so Flight 370 is a revelation about how a flight can go missing in real time without a whole lot known about it, if certain human agents (which it appears were responsible) want it to disappear.

◼ The wandering airplane - Neoneocon
◼ The question on everyone’s mind: how can an airliner just disappear? - Neoneocon
◼ More Evidence That Flight 370 Was Intentionally Diverted

This has stopped being a morbid curiosity and become something more menacing.

Two sources said an unidentified aircraft that investigators believe was Flight MH370 was following a route between navigational waypoints - indicating it was being flown by someone with aviation training - when it was last plotted on military radar off the country's northwest coast.
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A third source familiar with the investigation said inquiries were focusing increasingly on the theory that someone who knew how to fly a plane deliberately diverted the flight...

The Andsmans are a chain of hundreds of islands off the coast of India. Most are uninhabited.