Source says Malaysia Airlines flight veered off course for an hour before vanishing as two Iranians using stolen passports ID'd
Pouria Nour Mohammad Mehrdad (left) and Delavar Seyed Mohammadreza (far right) travelled together on the missing Malaysia Airlines MH 370 flight.
Investigators searching for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight believe it veered off course for more than an hour with its tracking systems apparently disabled before vanishing, according to senior military source.
In the new scenario, Flight MH370 drastically changed its route at a lower altitude, flying over Malaysia’s west coast, over the busy shipping channel of the Strait of Malacca.
Previously, Malaysian authorities have said the Boeing 777 with 239 people aboard disappeared about an hour after it took off from Kuala Lumpur bound for the Chinese capital Beijing.
At the time it was roughly midway between Malaysia's east coast town of Kota Bharu and the southern tip of Vietnam, flying at 35,000 feet.
A Malaysian police official displays photographs of the two men who boarded the Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 using stolen European passports. The man on the left is identified as Pouri Nourmohammadi, 19, while the other is believed to be Delavar Seyedmohammaderza, 29, according to authorities.
"It changed course after Kota Bharu and took a lower altitude. It made it into the Malacca Strait," the military official, who has been briefed on investigations, told Reuters.
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