LIVE STREAM (News conference):
http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/live
I think it's starting soon (1:50 AM right now)
Edit: 2:02 AM right now, expecting statement in next 10 min
-cliffs
Malaysian PM:
- Based on satellite communication, there is a high degree of certainty that the aircraft data reporting system was disabled
- Radar data showed aircraft proceeded to area north of straits of Malaka," Malaysian PM says
- Confirmed: ACARS disabled, transponder switched off.
- Just after that, near the border with Vietnam, the transponder was turned off
- Plane then flow in westerly direction, back toward peninsula Malaysia before turning north west
- today based on raw satellite data we confirmed that the aircraft was MH370.
Last satellite data was at 811am on 8/3/2014
Communication was last heard by satellite at 8:11 am Saturday. 7 hours after we thought before. Before we thought it was 1:07 am.
- The plane's last communication suggests could be in two locations - norther corridor, Kazakhstan stretching to Northern Thailand
- We are unable to confirm the precise location of #MH370 when it last made contact with satellite
- PM said it is Not confirmed that the plane was hijacked
- PM: based on new data Mh370 could be in the northern corridor (Thailand to Kazakhstan) or southern corridor (Indonesia southwards)
- Ending the search at south china sea
-Investigators have refocused their attention onto the pilots and passengers on board Flight MH 370, Malaysia's Prime Minister said.