Malaysian Officials have concluded missing flight #MH370 was hijacked and steered off course

[EX500rider]

97. Here's the latest from BBC:

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-26591056

Apparently the SAT phone pinged the satellite for 7 hours after the transponder went offline.

"A satellite was able to pick up a signal from the plane until 08:11 local time - more than seven hours after it lost radar contact - although it was unable to give a precise location, Mr Razak said.
He went on to say that based on this new data, investigators "have determined the plane's last communication with a satellite was in one of two possible corridors":
A northern corridor stretching from the border of Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan through to northern Thailand
a southern corridor stretching from Indonesia to the southern Indian Ocean."

That's about where the fuel would have run out.

So piracy maybe but also maybe a fire that asphyxiated everybody and burnt thru many electrical sysytems..?

Fire scenario:
Breaks out under cockpit and quickly over whelms crew with toxic smoke....burns thru all comms and ASCARS but not the sat phone, the plane flies on last course 7 hours and crashes.

Piracy:
Southern route:
Somali pirates trying a new gig since they've been unable to take a ship for over a year...runs out gas just short or is hidden on ground and hostages being well dispersed before contacting their middle men/brokers in the Persian Gulf region.

Northern route: separatists from one of the Stan's or China...runs out again or is on ground somewhere in a distant valley.

Hard to buy the north route theory, too many ATC's in the way and more radar. Indian Ocean not so much.