Malaysia's prime minister has announced that missing flight MH370 crashed in the southern Indian Ocean.
Najib Razak said this was the conclusion of fresh analysis of satellite data tracking the flight.
Malaysia Airlines had told the families of the 239 people on board, he said.
Earlier the BBC saw a text message sent to families by the airline
saying it had to be assumed "beyond reasonable doubt" that the plane was
lost and there were no survivors.
Flight MH370 disappeared after taking off on 8 March from Kuala Lumpur.
The announcement by PM Najib Razak, at a late-night news conference,
came on the fifth day of an international search effort in the southern
Indian Ocean.
Based on new analysis, the UK's Air Accidents Investigation Branch
and Inmarsat, the UK company that provided satellite data, "have
concluded that MH370 flew along the southern corridor, and that its last
position was in the middle of the Indian Ocean, west of Perth," Mr
Razak said.
"This is a remote location, far from any possible landing sites. It
is therefore with deep sadness and regret that I must inform you that,
according to this new data, flight MH370 ended in the southern Indian
Ocean."
Mr Razak appealed to the media to respect the privacy of the families
of the passengers and crew, saying the wait for information had been
heartbreaking and this latest news harder still.
The text message sent to families by Malaysia Airlines announcing the
loss of the plane said: "Malaysia Airlines deeply regrets that we have
to assume beyond any reasonable doubt that MH370 has been lost and that
none of those on board survived... we must now accept all evidence
suggests the plane went down in the Southern Indian Ocean."
Monday, March 24, 2014
Flight MH370 'crashed in south Indian Ocean' - Malaysia PM
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