Malaysia Airlines Adjusts Timeline for Flight 370's Final Communication

[morningfog]

The chief executive of Malaysia Airlines acknowledged some uncertainty about when a critical communications system was disabled on missing Flight 370, underscoring confusion at the helm of the investigation.

The executive said the signaling system, known as Acars, could have been disabled "any time" between its last normal data transmission, at 1:07 a.m., and half an hour later, when the next message was supposed to go out, but didn't.

A day earlier, though, Hishammuddin Hussein, Malaysia's defense minister and acting minister of transportation, said Acars was disabled before the final radio transmission from the cockpit to ground controllers, which took place at 1:19 a.m. local time on March 8.

Ten days after the Boeing Co. 777's disappeared from civilian radar—triggering the largest international air and sea operation ever to look for a jet or its wreckage—U.S. air-safety experts said the discrepancy underscores potential longer-term problems with the leadership of the Malaysian inquiry.

Malaysian officials "are releasing data that simply have turned out not to be true," said John Cox, an industry consultant who has worked as an airline pilot and union safety investigator. "This is unlike anything we have ever seen," he added, in the realm of air disaster investigations "watched closely by the rest of the world."

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This was one of the major pieces suggesting hijacking. Once again, nobody know nothing.

[closeupready]

1. All those who believe all authorities involved are lying, raise your hand.

[morningfog]

3. I just can't figure out if it is CYA for negligence or something worse.

[GP6971]

6. Here. n/t

[JimDandy]

2. Who cares at this point. Find the plane already!

All this back and forth on minutia is ridiculous. There are 20 days left to find the black boxes before the battery dies. What I want to know is why is there no info about whether they are getting pings from the box and if not, does that mean it's destroyed, not under water, out of satellite range, or what?

[pokerfan]

4. This is beginning to remind me

of Fukushima and the Tepco press conferences.

[longship]

5. Well, when one considers that the thing broadcasts every half hour.

If the last received broadcast was at 1:07, the system could have been turned off any time from then, until 1:37.

So, no problem. It could have been shut down after the transponder, or at the same time, not necessarily right after 1:07.

Not a big deal. Glad they clarified this.


They did not adjust the time line, only the interpretation of the same time line they released earlier.

[GP6971]

7. Who can believe anything

coming out of the government of Malaysia????? Turning down assistance from the US really tells me that there is something else out there