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| Maldives island residents report sighting of 'low flying jet' |
| 2014-03-19 |
| [Dhaka Tribune] A low flying jumbo jet was said to have been seen over a remote island of Maldives on the morning of the disappearance of the Malaysian Airlines flight MH370. Witnesses on the Kuda Huvadhoo island said it was a white plane with red stripes -- what a Malaysian Airlines plane looks like, local HaveeruOnline reported. "Satellite data suggests that the last "ping" was recieved from the flight somwhere close to the Maldives and the US naval base on Diego Garcia. They said the aircraft was heading North to South-East, towards the Southern tip of the Maldives -- Addu, the report published on Tuesday said. Mohammed Zaheem, the Island Councilor of Kuda Huvadhoo, said that the residents of the island had spoken about how loudly the plane flew over. A local aviation expert told Haveeru that it is "likely" for MH370 to have flown over the Maldives. "Possibility of any plane flying over the island at the reported time is extremely low." The Malaysia airlines jet disappeared on March 8 with 239 people on board after taking off from Kuala Lumpur bound for Beijing. Investigators say it was deliberately diverted off course. Twenty-six countries are now helping to hunt for the plane after satellite and military radar data projected two huge corridors through which it might have flown. But the Maldives is not amongst the countries that Malaysian authorities had sought help from in its search for the missing jet. |
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