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MALAYSIAN AIRLINES

MH-370

RAHUL SUJANANI
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CONTENTS

OVERVIEW
DISAPPEARANCE
AIRCRAFT
PASSENGERS AND
CREW
PHASES OF SEARCH
INTERNATIONAL
INVOLVEMENT
OVERVIEW
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 was a
scheduled international passenger flight
from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing that
disappeared on 8 March 2014 at 01:20MYT
less than an hour after takeoff.
There has been no confirmation of any flight
debris and no crash, resulting in many unofficial
theories about its disappearance.
The only evidence of the plane's flight path after
it disappeared from military radar over the
Andaman Sea are communications between the
aircraft and a satellite over the Indian Ocean
DISAPPEARANCE
The flight departed from Kuala Lumpur
International Airport on 8 March 2014 at
00:41 local time.
The aircraft's final automated position report
using the Aircraft Communications
Addressing and Reporting System (ACARS)
protocol was sent at 01:07MYT.
The final contact with air traffic control(ATC)
occurred at 1:19MYT.
The crew was expected to contact air traffic
control in Ho Chi Minh City as the aircraft
passed into Vietnamese airspace, just north
of the point where contact was lost.
The aircraft's last known position from
secondary radar was on 8 March at 01:21MYT
at the navigational waypoint in the Gulf of
Thailand, at which the aircraft made a sharp
turn westwards, heading towards a waypoint
in the Strait of Malacca, when the
transponder signal was lost.

Soon afterwards, military radar suggests the


aircraft climbed beyond its approved ceiling
limits and descended unevenly and was last
plotted heading northwest towards India's
Andaman Islands.
AIRCRAFT
Flight 370 was operated with a Boeing 777.
The 404th Boeing 777 first flew on 14 May 2002,
and was delivered new to Malaysia Airlines on
31 May 2002.
The aircraft was configured to carry 282
passengers.
It had 53,460 hours and 7,525 cycles in service
and had not been involved in any major
incidents.
Its last maintenance 'A' check was carried out on
23 February 2014.
The Boeing 777 is regarded by experts to have
one of the best safety records as a commercial
aircraft.
PASSENGERS AND
CREW
The flight had 227 passengers and 12 crew
members on board.

All 12 crew members were Malaysian citizens.


The two pilots were
The captain was 53-year-old Zaharie Ahmad
Shah having 18,365 hours of flying
experience.

The first officer was 27-year-old Fariq Abdul


Hamid, with 2,763 flying hours experience.
This was Fariq's first flight as a fully qualified
Boeing 777 first officer.
FIRST PHASE OF
SEARCH
Radar contact with the aircraft was last made
over the Gulf of Thailand. Oil slicks detected
off the coast of Vietnam and Thailand on 9
March later tested negative for aviation fuel.

The Royal Thai Navy shifted its focus in the


search away from the Gulf of Thailand and
the South China Sea.

Search radius was increased from 20 nautical


miles to 100 nautical miles and the area
being examined then extended to the Strait
of Malacca and Andaman sea on 12 march.
SECOND PHASE

On 13 March, White House announced an


additional search area to be opened in the
Indian Ocean.

On 17 March, search in the southern locus


from Sumatra to the southern Indian Ocean
was agreed to be coordinated by the
Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA).

Search efforts intensified on 20 March, after


large pieces of possible debris had been
photographed but was not found to be linked
to the plane.
THIRD PHASE
On 28 March, revised estimates led to
north-east of the previous area roughly
1,850 kilometres west of Perth.

On 30 March Royal Navy survey vessel


HMS Echo and submarine HMS Tireless
arrived in search for the aircraft's
underwater locator beacons (ULBs) fitted
to the "black box" flight recorders, whose
batteries were expected to expire around
7 April.
FOURTH PHASE
On 4 April, the search was refocused to
three more northerly areas and ADV
Ocean Shield, fitted with a TPL-25 towed
pinger locator began searching for pings.

On 29 May the Australian Deputy Prime


Minister, Warren Truss, announced that no
aircraft debris had been found in that part
where 'pings' from the black boxes were
reported.
FIFTH PHASE
On 10 June, it was announced that the
Australian Transport Safety Bureau
(ATSB) had signed a three-month
contract with the Dutch deep sea survey
company Fugro Survey Pvt. Ltd, to
conduct a wide area survey of the
seafloor in the search area for missing
Malaysia Airlines flight 370 (MH370).
INTERNATIONAL INVOLVEMENT

In response to the incident, the Malaysian


government requested international assistance
under Five Power Defence Arrangements
provisions.

At the peak of the search effort 26 countries


were involved in the search, contributing in
aggregate nearly 60 ships and 50 aircraft. In
addition to the countries already named, these
parties included Australia, Bangladesh, China,
France, India, Indonesia, Japan, New Zealand
Russia, Singapore, South Korea, Thailand,
United Kingdom, United States, Vietnam.

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