New food for conspiracy theorists.

March 19, 2014 - 11:28AM

...As an Australian-led (click here) search for a missing Malaysia Airlines passenger jet swings into action in the southern Indian Ocean, reports have emerged of a possible sighting of MH370 thousands of kilometres away in the Maldives.

Residents on the island nation, in the Indian Ocean about 700 kilometres south-west of Sri Lanka, have reported seeing a ‘‘low-flying jumbo jet’’ on the morning that the missing plane with 239 people on board vanished from civilian radar and lost contact with ground controllers....

Somalia. 

Take your pick.

Here are some of those theories about one of the world’s most baffling aviation mysteries: (click here)

1. SOURCE: Chris Goodfellow, who describes himself as an experienced pilot.

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THE THEORY: Mr Goodfellow has posted on Google Plus that he believes the pilot on MH370 may have been heading to the Malaysian resort island of Langkawi to land after the transponders were knocked out by a fire on board.
"The left turn is the key here. This was a very experienced senior Captain with 18,000 hours,’’ Mr Goodfellow writes....

March 19, 2014 - 11:12AM

Kuala Lumpur: (click here) The new version of the sequence of events in the cockpit of missing Malaysia Airlines flight 370 has re-opened speculation that a mechanical failure or abrupt event caused the pilots to attempt to turn back from the plane’s scheduled flight path but lost control and consciousness.

Authorities in Kuala Lumpur on Monday backed away from a statement by Malaysia’s Acting Transport Minister Hishammuddin Hussein on Sunday that the plane’s automatic reporting system called ACARS was shut down before the co-pilot told Kuala Lumpur ground control “all right, good night.”...

Me, too. "Good night."