Investigators on the missing Malaysian airline flight MH 370 have recently announced that the telecommunication towers had picked up a signal that told them that the co-pilot, Fariq Abdul Hamid had made a desperate call which was suddenly cut off as the plane went off course. Experts have carefully expressed the possibility that the plane may have been hijacked.
Malaysia's New Straits News Paper reported that it has been confirmed that the call was in fact made during the flight only a short time before the disappearance but it is not entirely clear as to why the call was cut off. Experts claimed that there was the possibility that the plane was deliberately flown away from the telecommunication towers for the call to abruptly end.
There was even the chance that someone with very detailed knowledge of the plane shut down the communication systems before forcing the aircraft to move off its regular course. A senior Malaysian government official told CNN that the plane was last picked up through telecom towers when it was flying over Indonesian airspace, probably in an attempt to avoid detection from radar.
In addition, an Australian naval ship equipped with American black-box technology picked up some signals in the middle of the Indian Ocean. However, the source of these "ping" signals has yet to be confirmed.
Some newspapers have went as far as to claim that the plane was taken down by either pirates or terrorists while it was on its way to Beijing, China. A Russian paper even put out the possibility that the plane could be somewhere in Afghanistan where the surviving passengers and crew are now hostages and the terrorists are getting ready to bargain with the rest of the international community.
Though no country is taking claims of these particular newspapers too seriously, investigations are still underway in order to determine exactly what happened to the MH 370 flight.
