A relative (center) of passengers from missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 speaks to the media at a hotel in Beijing on Tuesday. Intelligence checks on the 153 Chinese passengers aboard a missing Malaysian airliner produced no red flags, China said, as investigators struggled to clarify events that led to the plane’s dramatic disappearance. AFP PHOTO
WASHINGTON, D.C.: The turn that diverted the missing Malaysian Airlines plane off its flight path was programmed into the aircraft’s computer navigation system, probably by someone in the cockpit, The New York Times reported on Monday (Tuesday in Manila).