The Malaysian Aircraft that have vanished Saturday in route to Beijing may possibly be under a terrorist attack.
Authorities investigating the disappearance of Flight MH730 refused to rule out the possibility since Malaysia Airlines Chief Executive Ahmad Jauhari Yahya said the military radar indicated that the Boeing 777 jet may have turned back to Kuala Lumpur, according to New York Daily News.
Rodzali Daud, Malyasia's air force chief concur with the information, saying "there is a possible indication that the aircraft made a turnback," and that authorities were "trying to make sense of that."
If all evidence validate the sudden move, what is baffling in the investigation is that the pilot failed to inform the airline and traffic control people about their sudden turn around.
According to Reuters, air-crash experts tried to explain why the rare occurrence of flight MH370 not issuing a mayday signal.
"Such a sudden disappearance would suggest either that something is happening so quickly that there is no opportunity to put out a mayday, in which case a deliberate act is one possibility to consider, or that the crew is busy coping with what whatever has taken place," Paul Hayes, director of safety at Flightglobal Ascend aviation consultancy, explained.
John Goglia, a former board member of the NTSB, the U.S. agency that investigates plane crashes, said no attempts of distress call may suggest that the plane either experienced an explosive decompression or was destroyed by a bomb. "It had to be quick because there was no communication," he added.
A Malaysian newspaper also reported last Sunday that the pilot of another flight made brief contact with flight MH370 via his emergency frequency.
The unnamed pilot who was Japan-bound plane was crossing Vietnamese airspace when officials asked him to contact MH370 to establish its position, and that he finally got to relay the message at about 1.30am local time.
"The voice on the other side could have been either Captain Zaharie [Ahmad Shah, 53,] or Fariq [Abdul Hamid, 27], but I was sure it was the co-pilot.
"There were a lot of interference ... static ... but I heard mumbling from the other end.
"That was the last time we heard from them, as we lost the connection," he revealed to Strait Times.
The Malaysian Airline flight MH370 carrying 239 people mysteriously vanished off the Vietnamese coast last Saturday.
A terrorist attack is feared as Interpol said in a statement that according to their investigation, there were two people on board using fake identities.
The European authorities confirmed the names and nationalities of the two stolen passports: One was an Italian-issued document bearing the name Luigi Maraldi, the other Austrian under the name Christian Kozel.
U.S. law enforcement sources disclosed that the Austrian and Italian passports were stolen in Thailand, according to CNN.
China correspondent to The Guardian, Malcolm Moore got hold of confirmation from China Southern that "Maraldi" and "Kozel" purchased their tickets together and were both due to fly onto Amsterdam MH370.
"No nexus to terrorism yet," a U.S. intelligence official refused to agree with the assumption of the feared cause, "although that's by no means definitive. We're still tracking."
