malaysia flight 370 was supposed to land at beijing capital international airport.
malaysia flight 370 was supposed to land at beijing capital international airport.
where was malaysia flight 370 supposed to land?
beijing capital international airport
malaysia airlines flight 370 departed kuala lumpur international airport at 00:41 malaysia standard time (myt) on 8 march 2014 (16:41 utc, 7 march), bound for beijing capital international airport. at 1:19, malaysian air traffic control (atc) initiated a hand-off to ho chi minh area atc. the captain responded "good night malaysian three seven zero", after which no further communications were made with the pilots. at 1:21, the aircraft disappeared from the radar of air traffic control after passing navigational waypoint igari () in the south china sea between malaysia and vietnam. the aircraft continued to be tracked by malaysian military radar, which recorded that flight 370 deviated from its planned flight path, turning around and crossing the malay peninsula. flight 370 left the range of malaysian military radar at 2:22 and was last located northwest of penang. flight 370 was expected to arrive in beijing at 6:30 china standard time (cst) on 8 march (06:30 myt; 22:30 utc, 7 march). at 7:24 myt/cst, malaysia airlines issued a media statement that flight 370 was missing.
analysis of malaysia airlines flight 370 satellite communications
at 02:03, kuala lumpur acc relayed to ho chi minh acc information received from malaysia airlines' operations centre that flight 370 was in cambodian airspace. ho chi minh acc contacted kuala lumpur acc twice in the following eight minutes asking for confirmation that flight 370 was in cambodian airspace. at 02:15, the watch supervisor at kuala lumpur acc queried malaysia airlines' operations centre, which said that it could exchange signals with flight 370 and that flight 370 was in cambodian airspace. kuala lumpur acc contacted ho chi minh acc to ask whether the planned flight path for flight 370 passed through cambodian airspace. ho chi minh acc responded that flight 370 was not supposed to enter cambodian airspace and that they had already contacted phnom penh acc (which controls cambodian airspace), which had no communication with flight 370. kuala lumpur acc contacted malaysia airlines' operations centre at 02:34, inquiring about the communication status with flight 370, and were informed that flight 370 was in a normal condition based on a signal download and that it was located at . later, another malaysia airlines aircraft (flight 386 bound for shanghai) attempted, at the request of ho chi minh acc, to contact flight 370 on the lumpur radar frequency – the frequency on which flight 370 last made contact with malaysian air traffic control – and on emergency frequencies. the attempt was unsuccessful.
malaysia airlines flight 370