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- 2. TECHNICAL COMMUNICATION Assignment-3 Submitted To- Submitted By- Dr. Yashoda Verma Sakshi Agarwal 159102108 Sec-A
- 4. FLIGHT DETAILS Date – 8 March 2014 Passengers – 227 Crew – 12 Survivors – 0 (presumed) Operator – Malaysia Airlines Origin – Kuala Lumpur International Airport (Malaysia) Destination – Beijing Capital International Airport (China)
- 5. Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 (MH370/MAS370) It was a scheduled international passenger flight that disappeared on 8 March 2014, while flying from Kuala Lumpur International Airport, Malaysia, to Beijing Capital International Airport in China. The aircraft last made voice contact with air traffic control at 01:19 MYT, 8 March when it was over the South China Sea, less than an hour after takeoff. It disappeared from air traffic controllers' radar screens at 01:22 MYT. Malaysian military radar continued to track the aircraft as it deviated from its planned flight path and crossed the Malay Peninsula. It left the range of Malaysian military radar at 02:22 while over the Andaman Sea, 370 km north-west of Penang in north-western Malaysia. The aircraft, was carrying 12 Malaysian crew members and 227 passengers from 15 nations.
- 6. Where was MH370 headed? The plane took off from Kuala Lumpur International Airport at 00.41am local time on 8 March 2014, carrying 227 passengers, ten cabin crew, two pilots and a little more than 14 tons of cargo. It was travelling to Beijing Capital International Airport, a flight that should have taken around 5hrs 34mins.
- 7. What happened next? At 1.21am, halfway over the Gulf of Thailand, the plane disappeared from civilian radar, suggesting its transponder stopped functioning or had been turned off. It could still be seen by military radar, however, which is how it is known to have abruptly turned from its flight path and headed back in the direction it came, before turning further west.
- 8. Were attempts made to contact the plane? Yes. A little after 1.30am, the captain of another aircraft tried to make radio contact at the request of Vietnamese air traffic control, which could not reach MH370. He got through to the cockpit but could only hear "mumbling" and static. Two ground-to-aircraft phone calls were made at 2.39am and 7.13am. Both went unanswered.
- 9. When was MH370 last known to be in the air? The last piece of data from the flight was sent by the automated Inmarsat satellite communications system at 8.19am, suggesting the flight was still in the air at that time. However, it could not give conclusive evidence about where the plane was and only suggested it was in one of two "flight corridors", one stretching north and the other south.
- 10. How is the search going? The Australian authorities are still looking in the southern Indian Ocean but are expected to stop at the end of June, by which time, the search, using ships dragging radar systems, will have cost some £90m, says the Daily Express. The only piece of confirmed MH370 wreckage found so far is a flaperon, a small part of a wing, which washed up on the French island of Reunion, thousands of miles from the presumed crash site.
- 11. Why is it taking so long for investigators to confirm if the wing is from MH370? The investigation is being led by aviation authorities in France as the debris was discovered on French territory, but Malaysian and Australian officials are also involved. The wing arrived at a military-run facility near Toulouse but the involvement of different countries and groups has "complicated and delayed the situation somewhat", says CNN.
- 12. How will they confirm its origin? Jean-Paul , the former head of France's BEA agency, which investigates aviation accidents, said the type of paint used on the wing might provide vital clues. "Every airline paints their planes in a certain way … and if the paint used is used by Malaysia Airlines and other companies, there may be more certainty," he said. Investigators will undertake tests to try to determine where the wing came from. Mary Schiavo, an aviation analyst and former inspector general of the US Department of Transportation, says they will be conducting "everything from X-rays to sonograms". They will then take apart the fragment in search of serial and part numbers to match to the missing plane.
- 13. If a serial number cannot be easily identified, the wing will be examined with an electron microscope "that can magnify up to 10,000 times“. Bill Waldock, a professor of safety science at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, predicted analysts would also look for small fractures in the surface that could reveal the plane's angle of impact. An ultrasound could show "just how violent the separation was“. There have also been suggestions that the barnacles growing on the wing could provide a clue about the water conditions under which they were formed and narrow down the search area considerably.
- 14. What about the relatives? There has been anger about the treatment of relatives by both the Chinese and Malaysian authorities, who are said to have been tardy with information and lacking in sensitivity. It angered relatives of the crew members when Malaysia abruptly declared the flight lost without warning. Some still cling to the hope their loved ones are alive, even after so long.
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