US officials believe that two communications systems aboard Malaysian Airlines flight 370 (seen below in the last known picture of the Boeing 777) were shut down separately, 14 minutes apart - meaning that the plane did not come down because of a catastrophic failure. The data reporting system was shut down at 1.07 am and the transponder was turned off at 1.21 am just before the Boeing 777 apparently changed course and turned west. According to investigators this indicated that the switch-off could have been a deliberate act and officials told ABC News that the two communications devices were 'systematically shut down'.
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