There are three major advances in the investigation into the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370.  All three revelations put together seem to support the view that this was no accident – someone took control of the flight, perhaps for the purposes of terrorism.

First:  A Classified American analysis of electronic and satellite data suggests the flight likely crashed either in the Bay of Bengal or elsewhere in the Indian Ocean.

CNN says analysis conducted by the United States and Malaysian governments may have narrowed the search area for the jetliner to the area northwest of the spot it went missing, near the Andaman Islands.  The other projection was southwest, into the Indian Ocean.  This analysis was compiled by radar data and satellite pings.  And it significantly reduces the size of the search area from the giant circle that reached from WA’s northwest Outback to the Gobi Desert in northern China.

Second:  Once Flight MH370 disappeared from flight controllers’ screens, it took “a strange path”.  The New York Times reported that Malaysian military radar showed the plane climbed to 45,000 feet soon after disappearing from civilian radar screens.  That’s about as high as a Boeing 777-200 can go.  It then dropped to 23,000 feet before climbing again.

Third:  Friday’s Wall Street Journal reported that the plane’s communications were switched off separately. 

Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 disappeared one week ago today over the South China Sea with 239 people on board including six Australians.