Radar readings suggest that Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 had been steered westward towards India's Andaman Islands between the Bay of Bengal and the Andaman Sea.

Bound for Beijing, the Boeing 777's last known position was midway between Malaysia and Vietnam at 1:21 am. Malaysia's air chief said that an aircraft that could have been the missing plane was detected by military radar roughly 320 km northwest of Penang, Malaysia at roughly 2:15 am.