Malaysia Airlines plane may have veered wildly off course during flight, military says --- KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — As the search pressed on Tuesday for a vanished Malaysian airliner, military officials said radar data showed it inexplicably turned and headed toward the Malacca Strait, hundreds of miles off its scheduled flight path, news agencies and Malaysian media reported. -- Malaysia’s air force chief, Gen. Rodzali Daud, was quoted by Malaysian newspaper Berita Harian as saying that the Boeing 777 jet was detected by military radar at 2:40 a.m. Saturday near Pulau Perak at the northern end of the strait, which separates the western side of the Malaysian peninsula from the Indonesian island of Sumatra. -- “After that, the signal from the plane was lost,” he told the newspaper. -- Search teams from 10 nations had initially focused their efforts east of the peninsula along the path that the red-eye flight was on when it disappeared after taking off from Kuala Lumpur at 12:41 a.m. local time en route to Beijing, where it was supposed to land at 6:30 a.m. -- The reports that the plane veered so far off course added a bizarre and confusing new element to a case that has baffled investigators. -- Three days after the plane carrying 227 passengers vanished, investigators admitted they still were mystified by what happened on board. Malaysian authorities said they continued to look for signs of sabotage or hijacking but were also considering the possibility of psychological or personal problems among the passengers or crew. -- They played down any connection between the plane’s fate and two Iranian passengers who had boarded the aircraft with fake Austrian and Italian passports. -- “The more information we get, the more we are inclined to conclude it is not a terrorist incident,” Ronald Noble, secretary general of the international police agency Interpol, told reporters. - More, Washingtonpost, at: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/search-expands-for-missing-malaysia-airlines-flight/2014/03/11/fea6df4a-a8e8-11e3-8599-ce7295b6851c_story.html