Originally published on March 13, 2014<br /><br />Radar readings suggest that Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 had been steered westward towards India's Andaman Islands between the Bay of Bengal and the Andaman Sea. <br /><br />Bound for Beijing, the Boeing 777's last known position was midway between Malaysia and Vietnam at 1:21 a.m. Malaysia's air chief said that an aircraft that could have been the missing plane was detected by military radar roughly 320 km northwest of Penang, Malaysia at roughly 2:15 a.m.<br /><br />Military radar readings further reveal that the unidentified plane was flying along a route between navigational waypoints towards India's Andaman Islands, suggesting that the plane was being flown by someone with aviation training.<br /><br />Pilots use these waypoints to navigate established air corridors. <br /><br />Radar data suggests that the unidentified plane had made a sharp detour towards a waypoint northeast of Indonesia's Aceh province, which is used for points headed to the Middle East. The plane then flew towards a waypoint south of Phuket and was last detected flying towards another waypoint that would take the plane over the Andaman Islands.<br /><br />Raw radar readings are now being requested from Thailand, Indonesia and India, which has a naval base in the Andaman Islands.
