ARYN OHRI Foreign correspondent of India Search enters second week of MH370 The million Dollar question, “Was the missing Malaysia Airlines plane deliberately diverted? Malaysian Flight MH370 departed from Kuala Lumpur International Airport at 00:41( 16.40 GMT) on Saturday and was due to arrive in Beijing at 06:30 (22:30 GMT). Malaysia Airlines says the plane lost contact less than an hour after takeoff. The planes disappearance was not an accident has further focused attention on the crew and the passengers. The motive for someone taking control of the plane remains still a mystery.According to satellite and radar evidence the plane could have continued flying for a further seven hours. China begins searching its territory for the missing Malaysian plane and says no evidence was found of terror links among Chinese passengers. The rigid search operation is now concentrating on entire areas to the north and south of Malaysia, after locational pings detected by a satellite appeared to indicate the plane was somewhere on an arc stretching either north up to to Central Asia, or south, to the Indian Ocean. Evidence revealed on Saturday 15 March by the Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak suggested the plane was deliberately diverted by someone on board about an hour after takeoff and the communications systems of missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 were deliberately disabled. The satellite position at 35,800 km above the sea level shows that the Malaysian Plane was travelling in straight line for 7 hours. There are two important things in the plane. The one is “Transponder” and the second is “Black box”.The MH370 transponder, which communicates with ground radar, was shut down soon after this final communication, as the aircraft crossed from Malaysian air traffic control into Vietnamese airspace over the South China Sea. As per the rules of Aviation at 01:37 hours the next ACARS ( Aircraft communication and reporting system) transmission was due, but it was never sent. But evidence from military radar, revealed later, suggested the plane had suddenly changed from its northerly course to head west. So the search, involving dozens of ships and planes, then switched to the sea west of Malaysia. It is now believed that co-pilot Hamid spoke the last words heard from the plane, All right, good night but it it not clear whether this was before or after the (ACARS) had been deliberately switched off. Weather conditions for this flight were good. Malaysia Airlines has a good safety record and the Boeing 777-200ER, is said to be one of the safest because of its modern technology. It clearly shows the plane has been hijacked. Let us wait and watch when this mystery will be resolved.
Posted on: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 13:00:37 +0000
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