These countries include: Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Pakistan, Bangladesh, India, China, Myanmar, Laos, Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia, Australia, and France, the statement said.
“Both the northern and southern corridors are being treated with equal importance,” it said, and appealed to the public not to jump to conclusions.
India has put on hold its search operations for the missing airliner as it is awaiting fresh instructions.
The search operations involving five warships and six surveillance aircraft have been put on hold and “we are awaiting fresh instructions from Malaysia,” Andaman and Nicobar Command spokesperson Colonel Harmit Singh said.
Meanwhile, CNN said two vans were loaded with small bags, similar to shopping bags, at the home of the co-pilot Hamid.
The channel quoted a US official as saying that the “investigators are carefully reviewing the information so far collected on the pilots to determine whether there is something to indicate a plan or a motive.”
