MALAYSIA's leadership considered from the outset the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 in 2014 a mass murder-suicide by the pilot, according to Tony Abbott, who was Australia's prime minister at the time.
Mr Abbott declined to name any individuals to support his claim. Najib Razak was Malaysia's prime minister when the plane went missing Bloomberg.
'My very clear understanding from the very top levels of the Malaysian government is that from very, very early on, they thought it was a murder-suicide by the pilot,' Mr Abbott said in a clip from a documentary airing Wednesday on Sky News.
MH370 vanished on March 8, 2014, on its way to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur with 239 people on board. Satellite data showed the jet abandoned its normal route shortly into the flight, crossed Malaysia and then cruised south over the Indian Ocean to its end. Underwater searches failed to locate the wreckage.
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Mr Abbott declined to name any individuals to support his claim. Najib Razak was Malaysia's prime minister when the plane went missing Bloomberg.
'My very clear understanding from the very top levels of the Malaysian government is that from very, very early on, they thought it was a murder-suicide by the pilot,' Mr Abbott said in a clip from a documentary airing Wednesday on Sky News.
MH370 vanished on March 8, 2014, on its way to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur with 239 people on board. Satellite data showed the jet abandoned its normal route shortly into the flight, crossed Malaysia and then cruised south over the Indian Ocean to its end. Underwater searches failed to locate the wreckage.
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