<p>India on Sunday put on hold its search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, at the request of the government in Kuala Lumpur, which wants to reassess the week-old hunt for the Boeing 777 that is suspected of being deliberately flown off course.<br /><br /></p>.<p>India had been combing two areas, one around the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, and a second, further west, in the Bay of Bengal. Both operations have been suspended, but may yet resume, defence officials said.<br /><br />"It's more of a pause," said Commander Babu, a spokesman for the Eastern Naval Command.<br /><br />"The Malaysian authorities are reassessing the situation. They will figure whether they need to shift the area of search."<br /><br />The fate of the flight, with 239 passengers and crew aboard, has been shrouded in mystery since it vanished off Malaysia's east coast less than an hour into a March 8 flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.<br /><br />Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak said on Saturday the plane appeared to have been deliberately steered off course after someone on board shut down its communications systems.<br /><br />A review of search operations involving more than a dozen countries will be held in Kuala Lumpur on Sunday, Indian officials said.<br /><br />"The search operation is not over, we are on standby and are awaiting instructions from the Malaysians," said a senior military official in Port Blair, capital of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, an archipelago west of the Malay Peninsula.</p>
<p>India on Sunday put on hold its search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, at the request of the government in Kuala Lumpur, which wants to reassess the week-old hunt for the Boeing 777 that is suspected of being deliberately flown off course.<br /><br /></p>.<p>India had been combing two areas, one around the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, and a second, further west, in the Bay of Bengal. Both operations have been suspended, but may yet resume, defence officials said.<br /><br />"It's more of a pause," said Commander Babu, a spokesman for the Eastern Naval Command.<br /><br />"The Malaysian authorities are reassessing the situation. They will figure whether they need to shift the area of search."<br /><br />The fate of the flight, with 239 passengers and crew aboard, has been shrouded in mystery since it vanished off Malaysia's east coast less than an hour into a March 8 flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.<br /><br />Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak said on Saturday the plane appeared to have been deliberately steered off course after someone on board shut down its communications systems.<br /><br />A review of search operations involving more than a dozen countries will be held in Kuala Lumpur on Sunday, Indian officials said.<br /><br />"The search operation is not over, we are on standby and are awaiting instructions from the Malaysians," said a senior military official in Port Blair, capital of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, an archipelago west of the Malay Peninsula.</p>