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8 May, 2014

Radar tracked plane over western Malaysia

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Malaysian Air Force Chief Rodzali Daud allegedly says that military radar detected the flight going westward, not east as it was supposed to, over the Malacca Strait, a busy shipping channel on Malaysia’s west coast. The plane was flying 1,000 feet lower than it had been. Daud immediately issues a statement denying that he said anything of the sort to local reporters, but additional sources say that radar at a military base tracked the flight to Pulau Perak, an island at the end of the Malacca Strait. CNN Wire tweets:

More on #MH370: If new data is correct, plane was on the opposite side of Malay Peninsula from its scheduled route.

According to an unnamed official,

[The plane] changed course after Kota Bharu and took a lower altitude. It made it into the Malacca Strait.

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