Missing MAS jet flew into southern Indian Ocean?

[KUALA LUMPUR] Investigators probing the disappearance of a Malaysia Airlines (MAS) jetliner with 239 people on board believe it most likely flew into the southern Indian Ocean, a source close to the investigation said yesterday.

An unprecedented search for the Boeing 777-200ER is under way involving 26 nations in two vast search "corridors", one arcing north overland from Laos towards the Caspian Sea, the other curving south across the Indian Ocean from west of Indonesia to west of Australia.

"The working assumption is that it went south, and furthermore that it went to the southern end of that corridor," said the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity.