Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak confirmed that the mysterious point in the radar detected by the Royal Malaysian Air Force (RMAF) surrounding airspace in northern Malaysia before disappearing confirmed belonging to MAS flight MH370. He described in the first phase of the search aircraft that the radar data from the RMAF showed that there is a plane that cannot be verified type had been turned back and went through the Strait of Malacca. Despite media reports said that the plane had been hijacked, he stressed that authorities were investigating all possibilities as what caused Flight MH370 to divert.