Saturday, 15 Mar 2014 11:10 AM
By Sandy Fitzgerald
Aviation investigators are looking closely at the two pilots at the controls of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 when it vanished, after concluding that the aircraft's mysterious disappearance a week ago as a deliberate, criminal act.
Although there are no reports of evidence linking either man to wrongdoing, Malaysian police say they are examining the pilots' psychological backgrounds, as well as their families and connections, as part of the investigation into the plane's disappearance on March 8 as it flew from Kuala Lumpur to Bejing.
On Saturday, Prime Minister Najib Razak said the missing plane's satellite and radar data showed the plane had flown on for hours after its automated communications were disabled, movements that "are consistent with deliberate action by someone on the plane."