Originally published on March 12, 2014
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As desperate friends and relative await news on Malaysian Airline flight 370, new info from the Malaysian military is re-focusing search efforts.
Missing Malaysian Airlines flight 370 took off at roughly 40 minutes after midnight March 8 and was scheduled to arrive in Beijing at 6:30 a.m.
Malaysian civilian radar lost contact with the plane at 01:22 a.m., with reports indicating the plane's transponder may have been shut off.
On Tuesday, Malaysia's military confirmed they had tracked the plane until 2:40 a.m. as it turned around and headed over the Strait of Malacca, raising questions about why civilian air control lost contact and why the Malaysian military took so long to confirm it had tracked the flight.
The search area has now been moved west, to the Strait of Malacca and the Andaman Sea.
Meanwhile, investigators have identified the two men travelling on stolen European passports. The men appear to be Iranian asylum seekers with no known terrorism connections.
Malaysian authorities on Tuesday released pictures of the two men travelling with false documents and say they will continue searching for the lost plane until it is found.
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