KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 19 ― Australian air crash investigators will offer a new search plan for missing Malaysia Airline Flight MH370 based on a theory that the pilot had gone rogue, The Australian reported today.
It said that investigators will change their strategy months before the conclusion of an exhaustive two-year search that was based on the theory that the pilots “were unconscious” when the plane went off radar and ended its flight in the southern Indian Ocean.
MH370 disappeared from radar on March 8, 2014 while en route from Kuala Lumpur or Beijing.
Air crash investigators concluded initially that the flight ended in the Southern Indian Ocean, where the search has been taking place for close to two years now.
The new strategy will be offered by the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB), the paper reported.
The new search strategy will also cover possibilities of the flight being hijacked, or that the pilot left it in a glide to water.
The plane had 239 individuals, most of whom were Chinese nationals, on board.
