Search for Malaysian Jet Becomes Criminal Inquiry
Malaysia turned the search for Flight 370 into a criminal investigation on Saturday, after the prime minister declared in a news conference that the plane had been deliberately diverted from its planned route a week ago from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing and then flown as much as seven hours to an unknown destination.
The prime minister, Najib Razak, said in a news conference on Saturday afternoon that Malaysia would seek the help of other governments across a large region of Asia in trying to find the plane.
Malaysian authorities later released a map showing that the last satellite signal received from the plane had been sent from a point somewhere along on one of two arcs spanning large distances across Asia.