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Message: <blockquote data-quote="exchanger" data-source="post: 16395009" data-attributes="member: 489399">China attacks Malaysian search operationPolice search Zaharie Ahmad Shah's home as it is confirmed that missing plane's communications were 'deliberately disabled'                                                                      A security guard  stands at a main gate outside the house of the missing Malaysia Airlines  pilot Zaharie Ahmad Shah. Photograph: Lai Seng Sin/AP                                              China's state news agency has made its harshest attack yet on <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/malaysia" target="_blank">Malaysia</a>'s handling of the investigation into missing flight MH370, while Malaysian police searched the home of the plane's pilot.Xinhua  said on Saturday that "massive efforts have been squandered, and  numerous rumours have been spawned, repeatedly racking the nerves of the  awaiting families".The report cited reluctance to share information "in a full and timely manner" which was <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/15/mh370-life-hold-brother-missing-passenger" target="_blank">intolerable for the relatives.</a>Meanwhile Malaysian police searched the home of the pilot at the helm of the missing <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/malaysia-airlines-flight-mh370" target="_blank">Malaysia Airlines flight MH370</a>,  after the country's prime minister confirmed earlier on Saturday that  the Boeing 777's communications were deliberately disabled by "someone  on the plane".Police officers arrived at 53-year-old captain  Zaharie Ahmad Shah's home on the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur shortly after  the PM, Najib Razak, finished his dramatic press conference, during  which he told reporters new satellite data indicated that MH370 last  made contact roughly seven hours after it vanished from civilian radar  one week ago.While the raw satellite footage has helped  investigators determine that the plane was still flying long after it  lost contact with air traffic control at 1.22am on Saturday 8 March with  239 people on board, it could not discern the aircraft's exact  location, Najib said – putting it anywhere along two possible flight  corridors: a northern corridor stretching from Kazakhstan, in central  Asia, down to northern Thailand; and a southern corridor stretching from  Indonesia towards the southern Indian Ocean.While authorities  had initially focused their investigation on the missing plane on four  possible explanations, including possible hijacking, sabotage, or the  personal or psychological problems of the crew or passengers, the "new  information" that had come to light was forcing investigators to rethink  their strategy, Najib said."In view of this latest development,  the Malaysian authorities have refocused their investigation into the  crew and passengers on board," he told reporters on Saturday.The  satellite data indicates that the plane was flying far longer than had  been initially believed, and is likely to instigate what may be the  biggest hunt ever for a missing plane. Some 14 countries, 43 ships and  58 aircraft are already involved in search and rescue efforts, but the  two new flight corridors will necessitate the assistance of the  countries underneath those corridors – including, possibly, Burma,  Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Kyrgyzstan, China, Nepal, Tajikistan and  Afghanistan.The hunt for the plane will therefore require  military and diplomatic co-operation as investigators attempt to piece  together, through civilian, military and satellite data, what the exact  fate of the missing jet may be.It is unclear if police had also  begun searching the homes of the other 11 Malaysian crew on board,  including co-pilot Fariq Abdul Hamid, 27, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/11/malaysian-flight-mh370-copilot-teenagers-fariq-abdul-hamid" target="_blank">who  is known to have entertained passengers on board a previous flight in  the cockpit during a Phuket-Kuala Lumpur flight in 2011</a>.Captain  Zaharie joined Malaysia Airlines in 1981 and was known as an avid  flight buff who had clocked in 18,365 flight hours. He had a penchant  for toying around with miniature planes on weekends and, as a certified  flight simulator test examiner, had built himself a flight simulator at  home.Another report emerged on Saturday indicating that MH370 may  have turned south towards the Indian Ocean, where it is believed to  have last been identified  1,000 miles west of Perth in Australia,  according to satellite "pings" that recorded the plane's data, <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-03-14/india-looking-for-malaysian-jet-as-u-s-sees-air-piracy.html" target="_blank">Bloomberg reported</a>.If  the plane did continue northwards instead, towards central Asia, then  it is unclear how it would have avoided being detected by Indian air  control, whose radar coverage is likely to have  intercepted the jet.While  it is not clear how much fuel the Boeing-777 was holding, there would  have been enough to fly it at cruising altitude to its scheduled  destination, Beijing, a nearly six-hour flight. It is believed, however,  the missing jet may have been flying at a higher altitude, which would  have allowed it to carry on for longer.The news is likely to fuel  further speculation over suspected terrorism although no person or  group has come forward to disclose why the plane may have been hijacked,  or if it even was.For some relatives of those missing, however,  the news the plane was still flying at 8.11am last Saturday is an  indication that there may be hope for their missing loved ones."It  means there's still a chance my parents are alive," Eric Chen Zhi Yang,  15, told Malaysia's New Straits Times. Both his mother and father were  on board MH370.</blockquote>

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