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This is ARCHIVE WEEK #1 (8 - 14 March UTC) of older posts from the original thread, MH 370 KUL-PEK Missing: now Search and Recovery [PLEASE SEE WIKI].
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MH 370 KUL-PEK Missing: 8 - 14 Mar 2014 UTC - ARCHIVE WEEK #1
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Latest updates from Aviation Herald
Last updated Wednesday, Mar 12th 2014 08:31 UTC
Early Mar 12th 2014 the commander of Malaysia's Air Force stated, he did not make statements about the aircraft being tracked across Malaysia into the Strait of Malacca. The Air Force does not discount the possibility of an air turn back however, as stated in a press conference on Mar 9th 2014.
On Mar 12th 2014 Vietnam's Search and Rescue Control Center reported that analysis of satellite images of Vietnams coastal regions, capable of showing objects sized 2.5 meters by 2.5 meters, did not detect any signs of the aircraft. Around noon the Control Center reported, that the search operation continues in full like the days before based on official information from Malaysia that the aircraft has not been tracked in the Strait of Malacca. 9 Vietnamese aircraft and 9 Vietname ships plus 14 foreign aircraft and 22 foreign ships are searching Vietnamese waters.
On Mar 12th 2014 officials of Malaysia's Civil Aviation Authority talking to families of occupants of MH-370 in Beijing reported that the aircraft was just in the process of being handed off to Vietnam, the last radio transmission heard from the aircraft was "Okay, good night". The crew did not report on Vietnam's frequency anymore. About three minutes later Vietnam's control center noticed that the aircraft had disappeared from radar and had not reported on his frequency. There had been no emergency or distress calls on any means of communication, although radio coverage of the area is generally good. Malaysia's CAA officials stressed, that they do not have any indication that the aircraft may have turned back or deviated from the planned route. The aircraft "suddenly disappeared". So far the aircraft has not been found although a total of 1788 ships are participating in the search for the aircraft.
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I was starting a map of radar coverage in the area and I will upload that on completion later tonight, but for now here's a quick map of the plane's fuel range, with bathymetric data and histogram if anyone finds that interesting. I'll add in a link to a higher res version shortly.
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http://m.bbc.com/news/world-asia-26527390
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If she's down in there chances are she's lost for ever and a lot of people are going to be asked some very difficult questions.
PS: Nice map, where did you find it?
PS: Nice map, where did you find it?
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If it is indeed real I pity the poor guy.
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I can never remember in my 50 years of following aviation anything like this happening. I hope they eventially find the aircraft in order to determine what happened. Alot of work ahead in the investigation. Sure keeps the talking heads busy on alot of speculation.
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Today a new detail - the last communication was saying goodbye to Malaysian ATC, but it never said hello to Vietnamese ATC. Furthermore the last ATC Radar contact was at that handover area. After that nothing, except a possible Malay Military radar contact.
So at that handover point the plane stopped all radio comms and stopped all transponder signals.
We don't know about ACARS aircraft maintenance signals because cryptically they are not telling us, but if they did have ACARS data they would know the plane's later movements, and it is clear that they do not. Therefore we can assume the ACARS went offline at the same time.
So it could have been an accident - e.g. cockpit fire - or a deliberate switch off. Were it to have been deliberate then switching off at the handover point would have been the perfect place, because in the confusion of handover no one was suspecting anything for an hour or so.
So at that handover point the plane stopped all radio comms and stopped all transponder signals.
We don't know about ACARS aircraft maintenance signals because cryptically they are not telling us, but if they did have ACARS data they would know the plane's later movements, and it is clear that they do not. Therefore we can assume the ACARS went offline at the same time.
So it could have been an accident - e.g. cockpit fire - or a deliberate switch off. Were it to have been deliberate then switching off at the handover point would have been the perfect place, because in the confusion of handover no one was suspecting anything for an hour or so.
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First I've heard of this. I suspected as much (I didn't think it was far enough out to sea to be beyond VHF range), but all the talk earlier about using HF in this region had me convinced otherwise.
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So are there no Vietnamese military Radar records?
Or was the plane too far away for that?
Or was the plane too far away for that?
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Aviation Herald update
An editorial note added to Aviation Herald on Wednesday, Mar 12th 2014 09:22 UTC.
Editorial note on Mar 12th 2014: On Mar 10th Malaysia expanded the search area into the Strait of Malacca assigning substantial forces to that large search area (much larger than the search area in the Gulf of Thailand with a radius of 100nm around the last known secondary radar position east of Malaysia). It remains unclear why this has been done given the Mar 12th denials of reports of Mar 11th that the aircraft may have been tracked by primary radar into the Strait of Malacca explaining that widened search. It also remains unclear why on Mar 12th the search is now moving northwest into the Andaman Sea west of Malaysia, especially when there are/were no indications of the aircraft turning back as Malaysia officials told families in Beijing on Mar 12th.
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Malaysia air force chief says missing jet was possibly last detected 200 miles northwest of Malaysia's Penang island - @ReutersIndia