An unspecified Malaysian official was quoted as saying Saturday that investigators have concluded that missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 was hijacked.

According to the report, which is yet to be corroborated, the hijackers have rich flying experience and they switched off communication devices deliberately and steered the Boeing 777 aircraft off course.

Although piracy is no longer a theory, the motives are yet to be established, the official was quoted as saying.

Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak is scheduled to hold a press conference in Kuala Lumpur in the early afternoon.

A multinational intensive search has so far failed to locate the plane, which disappeared from radar early Saturday morning last week while carrying 239 people from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. Among the 227 passengers 154 are Chinese.

【新聞快訊】

綜合外媒報(bào)道，一位馬來(lái)西亞政府官員15日表示，調(diào)查人員已經(jīng)確認(rèn)，有一位或以上擁有資深飛行經(jīng)驗(yàn)的人員劫持了失聯(lián)客機(jī)MH370，關(guān)閉通訊系統(tǒng)，改變航線(xiàn)。

這名參加調(diào)查的官員還稱(chēng)，劫機(jī)人員未說(shuō)出動(dòng)機(jī)，也未提出訴求，尚不清楚飛機(jī)被開(kāi)往何處。

早些時(shí)候，有知情人士稱(chēng)，MH370曾向衛(wèi)星發(fā)出信號(hào)，于燃油耗盡之前曾在印度洋上飛行數(shù)小時(shí)，和地面指揮中心失去聯(lián)系5個(gè)小時(shí)之內(nèi)，MH370持續(xù)發(fā)出信號(hào)。