Thai Air Force on Tuesday said its radar had detected a passenger plane - might be the missing jet — that departed from Malaysia and diverted. The Malaysia Airlines plane to Beijing “could then have flown to the Straits of Malacca”, Thai Air Force chief ACM Prajin Juntong said.
A Thai Air Force radar station in Surat Thani detected a aircraft that departed from Malaysia but diverted and passed the port city of Butterworth, Malaysia, Juntong was quoted as saying by The National newspaper.