KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian authorities initiated a search in the Straits of Malacca on the morning that Flight MH370 went missing as they believed the plane had made an air turn back across the peninsula.
Defence Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein said the search was in addition to the South China Sea operation which had started hours earlier.
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