News: Confirmed: Malaysian plane was deliberately diverted: But why & where on earth is it?

Malaysia turned the search for Flight 370 into a criminal investigation toady Saturday March 15, after the prime minister declared in a news conference that the plane had been deliberately diverted from its planned route a week ago from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. The plane then flew as much as seven hours to an unknown destination.

The prime minister, Najib Razak, said in a news conference on Saturday afternoon that Malaysia would seek the help of other governments across a large region of Asia in trying to find the plane.

Malaysian authorities later released a map showing that the last satellite signal received from the plane had been sent from a point somewhere along on one of two arcs spanning large distances across Asia.

In other developments Saturday, police officers were seen arriving at the gated residential compound where the flight’s pilot, Zaharie Ahmad Shah, had his home, and Malaysian news media reported that a raid was underway. A police spokeswoman declined to comment, saying that no details would be available until a news conference early Sunday evening.