Malaysian PM: 'According to This New Data, Flight MH370 Ended in S. Indian Ocean'

[muriel_volestrangler]

63. We have both Thai and Malaysian radar saying the plane flew roughly west to the Malacca Strait

Montol said that at 1:28 a.m., Thai military radar "was able to detect a signal, which was not a normal signal, of a plane flying in the direction opposite from the MH370 plane," back toward Kuala Lumpur. The plane later turned right, toward Butterworth, a Malaysian city along the Strait of Malacca. The radar signal was infrequent and did not include data such as the flight number.

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/china-finds-terror-link-nationals-jet-22951466

In a far more detailed description of military radar plotting than has been publicly revealed, two sources told Reuters an unidentified aircraft that investigators suspect was missing Flight MH370 appeared to be following a commonly used navigational route when it was last spotted early on Saturday, northwest of Malaysia.

That course - headed into the Andaman Sea and towards the Bay of Bengal in the Indian Ocean - could only have been set deliberately, either by flying the Boeing (BA.N) 777-200ER jet manually or by programming the auto-pilot.

http://in.reuters.com/article/2014/03/14/malaysia-airlines-radar-idINDEEA2D05S20140314

Butterworth is on the mainland opposite the island of Penang: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterworth,_Penang

To get to the southern Indian Ocean, the plane would have had to turn south. Separate radar systems put it flying west, after the initial turn off the planned route. This is not a pre-programmed emergency route.