PETALING JAYA: Missing MAS flight MH370, which was reportedly sighted over Maldivian atoll Kudahuvadhoo, did not appear on the nation’s military radar.
“Further to the surveillances conducted thus far, none of the military radars in the country have detected a trace of the missing plane,” a Maldivian National Defense Force (MNDF) spokesperson said in a statement on its Ministry of Foreign Affairs website.
It added that airport radars in the Maldives also had not picked up any sign of the missing plane, which was supposedly seen by Maldivians above Kudahuvadhoo at 6.15am on March 8.
Residents on Kudahuvadhoo had told a local news portal there that they saw a “low flying jumbo jet” with supposed Malaysian Airlines colours on the morning of March 8.
Eyewitnesses also claimed that the aircraft sighted was travelling towards the southern tip of the Maldives.
According to Wikipedia, the island of Kudahuvadhoo is about 1.15km in length, and is nearly 180km from the Maldivian capital of Male.
Surveillance efforts, according to the MNDF, were being conducted with “a heightened level of vigilance” and that it was helping the Maldivian Police Service and international agencies with regard to the missing plane.
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