Malaysian authorities canceled a daily press conference at which they were set to answer questions about the disappearance of the Malaysia Airlines flight a week ago.
Earlier on Saturday, Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak said for the first time that Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 veered sharply off its flight plan because of “deliberate action by someone on the plane.” Razak said the plane communicated with satellites for hours after it disappeared and might have ended up thousands of miles away.
His disclosures, at a press briefing in the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur, represented the first big break in the investigation since the plane disappeared a week ago, with 239 people on board, on an overnight flight to Beijing.