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Top News Malaysia Officials Open Criminal Inquiry Into Missing Jet By KEITH BRADSHER and CHRIS BUCKLEY Prime Minister Najib Razak said in a news conference that data indicated that someone took action to change the course of the plane, which traveled for seven hours after it lost contact with ground control. Prime Minister's Statement |  Video U.S. Navy Strategists Have a Long History of Finding the Lost Focus Renewed on Pilot and First Officer Series of Errors by Malaysia Mounts, Complicating the Task of Finding Flight 370 By KEITH BRADSHER and MICHAEL FORSYTHE A week after the plane disappeared, the trail is even colder as the search now sprawls from the snowy peaks of the Himalayas to the empty expanses of the southern Indian Ocean. Russia Seizes Gas Plant Near Crimea Border, Ukraine Says By DAVID M. HERSZENHORN, PETER BAKER and ANDREW E. KRAMER On the eve of a secession referendum in Crimea, Russian forces took a natural gas terminal while Western officials prepared sanctions for Moscow.