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The Malaysian Military Says The Passenger Jet That Disappeared Last Saturday Veered Far Off Course From It's Intended Flight Path From Kuala Lumpur To Beijing. Officials Said Tuesday That Radar Tracked Flight 370 Over The Strait Of Malacca, Hundreds Of Kilometers To the West Of Where Civilian Air Traffic Controllers Lost Contact With It Off Malaysia's Eastern Coast. The Strait Is One Of The World's Busiest Shipping Routes And Separates The Western Coast Of Malaysia And The Indonesian Island Of Sumatra. The Location Of the Boeing Triple-Seven, With 239 People Aboard, Remains A Mystery. It Disappeared From Civilian Radar Without Any Distress Calls About An Hour After Leaving Kuala Lumpur Early Saturday.VOA's Ken Bredemeier Spoke With Aerospace Expert Wayne Pluncker On His Read Of This Latest Information That The Passenger Plane Might Have Traveled Back West From It's Original Course To The East.

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