| Online: | |
| Visits: | |
| Stories: |
| Story Views | |
| Now: | |
| Last Hour: | |
| Last 24 Hours: | |
| Total: | |
Malaysia Air Flight 370 Facts Of The Flight And 10 Possible Scenarios
Here is the #MH370 situation update. I will try to update this article as conditions change.
Let us first start with the basics. The statistics as initially reported are incorrect. Here are the stats for the flight.
The ADS-B transponder of an aircraft is transmitting data twice per second. FR24 saves data every 10-60 second depending on altitude. Data is normally saved once per 60 seconds. By analyzing all our databases and logs we have managed to recover about 2 signals per minute for the last 10 minutes.
Time of departure: 16:41+-
Last position
Time UTC: 17:21
Lat: 6.97
Lon: 103.63
Alt: 35000
Speed: 471 knots
Heading: 40
This is less than one hour of flight, which is contrary to the reported duration of around 2 hours. This flight only lasted 38-40 minutes on radar. Coincidence: Pan Am Flight 103 was in the air 38 minutes.
Between 17:19 and 17:20 the aircraft was changing heading from 25 to 40 degrees, which is completely according to flight plan. Previous flights of MH370 on both 4 March and 8 March did the same at the same position. The last 2 signals are both showing that the aircraft is heading in direction 40 degrees.
We have heard reports in media that MH370 may have turned around.I have not seen this in the evidence from the tracking database. This could have happened if the aircraft suddenly lost altitude, as FR24 database coverage in that area is limited to about 29000 feet.
There were no emergency squawk alerts for flight MH370 before coverage was lost of the aircraft. Playback for flight MH370 is available on the following page.
There is a clock rolling on the left legend under search
You should pay attention to the following aircraft:
| MAS 370 | This is Malaysian Air 370 | Departed at 16:41 | You can find the airport from which he departed on the left mid portion of the screen under the word Malaysia. |
|
| KAL 672 | Korean Airlines Flt 872 | Departed at 16:14 | This aircraft is flying north our of Kuala Lumpur. Very erratic flight. It disappears then reappears at the moment MAS 370 Disappears |
|
| UAE 419 | United Arab Emirates Flt 419 | Overflies Brunei at 16:39 |
This aircraft enters from the middle right-hand of the screen. It flies across the Ocean toward Bangkok. However previous flights are in a substantially different flight path from Sydney to Bangkok. This aircraft disappears and then reappears after FLT370 disappears. |
|
It is apparent that a huge radar “blind spot” has occurred in the area that did not previously exist. This Radar interference cause many aircraft to leave the radar screen in a 1 hour period, only one did not return on radar.
