New twist news about MH370
Unusual time interval.
Another twist has came into news about the mystery of lost aircraft
MH370. Citing two unnamed U.S. officials, the network said two
separate communications systems on the missing aircraft were shut down
separately, 14 minutes apart.
The officials told they that, they believe the plane’s data
reporting system was shut down at 1:07 a.m. Saturday, while the
transponder transmitting location and altitude was shut down at 1:21
a.m.If the plane had disintegrated during flight or had suffered some
other catastrophic failure, all signals — the pings to the satellite,
the data messages and the transponder — would be expected to stop at
the same time.
Now, experts are speculating that a pilot or passengers with technical
expertise may have switched off the transponder in the hope of flying
undetected.
Technical
scenario
And there’s another confusing twist. An emergency beacon that would
have sent data if the plane was about to impact the ocean apparently
did not go off, the official added more. The beacons, known as
Emergency Locator Transmitters, activate automatically upon immersion
in fresh or salt water, but must remain on the surface for a distress
signal to transmit.
The failure of the beacon to activate could mean that the plane didn’t
crash, that the transmitter malfunctioned, or that it’s underwater
somewhere.
Route
The sources said it was following aviation corridors identified on
maps used by pilots as N571 and P628. These are routes taken by
commercial planes flying from Southeast Asia to the Middle East or
Europe.The first two sources said MH370′s last confirmed position was
at 35,000 feet about 90 miles (144 km) off the east coast of Malaysia
at 1.21am, heading towards Vietnam, near a navigational waypoint
called ‘Igari.’
From there, the plot indicates that the plane flew towards a waypoint
known as ‘Gival,’ south of the Thai island of Phuket, and was last
plotted heading northwest towards another waypoint called ‘Igrex,’ on
route P628.
The Andaman Islands landing
Denis Giles, editor of the Andaman Chronicle newspaper, says there’s
just nowhere to land such a big plane in his archipelago without
attracting notice. Indian authorities own the only four airstrips in
the region, he said.
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