KUALA LUMPUR: Sceptical aviation analysts questioned the notion that a missing Malaysian airliner may have flown thousands of miles off course into the Indian Ocean, crossing undetected over a sensitive region bristling with military radar.
While hard to square with a number of ground realities, the theory appeared serious enough for the US Navy to mobilise valuable assets to investigate further, after the White House cited “new information” that the plane might have flown for hours after vanishing over the South China Sea.