Military radar in Malaysia did track an unidentified aircraft as it flew across the country's airspace after MH370 lost contact with ground control, it was revealed today.

Malaysia's Prime Minister Najib Razak said the military's radar tracked what is believed to have been the Malaysian Airlines plane after it had turned back while on a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8.

'The military radar, the primary radar, has some capability,' Mr Najib said.

'It tracked an aircraft which did a turn back but they were not sure, exactly sure, whether it was MH370.

'What they were sure of was that the aircraft was not deemed to be hostile.'

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