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There is a three hour time difference between Maldives and MAL. If Mal took off at 1 something, and made a turn 42 minutes after, how long after the turn around would Mal 370 have flown over Maldives?
To check Flight Times / Time Zones / Last Words / Sighting in Maldives Time:
If using website
bookings.malaysiaairlines.com
and looking at flights Departing from Kuala Lumpur Malaysia (KUL) - (MLE) Male Maldives:
Example:
Flight: MH177, Departs: 20:45 pm, Arrives: 21:55 pm, Airports: KUL-MLE, Flight Duration: 4hours 10min.
Flight example above seems to fly
daily between KUL-MLE at same time on a daily schedule.
So, if the flight duration between Kuala Lumpur Malaysia and Male Maldives is around approx 4-5 hours (?)...
All we need to keep in mind are the
different Time Zone between Malaysia and Maldives.
Keep in mind: Time Zone Difference:
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Kuala Lumpur UTC/GMT Offset: UTC/GMT +8 hours
Daylight saving: No changes, UTC +8 hours all of the period.
Male, capital of Maldives. Maldives UTC/GMT Offset:
Standard time zone: UTC/GMT +5 hours.
No daylight saving time in 2014.
Time zone abbreviation: MVT - Maldives Time.
Reports were that Malaysia Airlines Flight MH 370 flight Departed
from Malaysia, KUALA LUMPUR KL International Airport (KLIA) on 8 March 2014 at 00:41 AM local time (16:41 UTC, 7 March) and was
Scheduled to land at China, Beijing Capital International Airport same day 8 March 2014 at 06:30 AM local time (22:30 UTC, 7 March).
Malaysia Airlines says flight MH370 from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing lost contact
with SUBANG Air Traffic Control on 8 March 2014 at 01:20 am (MYT) less than 1 hour after takeoff.
At 07:24 AM, Malaysia Airlines (MAS) reported the flight missing.
About Last Words: MSM ABC.NET.AU published April 1, 2014:
"Malaysia Airlines MH370: Pilot's last words NOT "All right, good night", Malaysia's civil aviation authority says."
""We would like to confirm that the last conversation in the transcript between the air traffic controller and the cockpit
is at 01.19 AM (Malaysian Time) and is 'good night Malaysian 370'," the department of civil aviation said in a statement."
"Malaysia's ambassador to China told Chinese families in Beijing as early as March 12, four days after the flight went missing, that
the last words had been "all right, good night". "Good night Malaysian 370" would be a more formal, standard sign-off from the cockpit of
the Boeing 777, which was just leaving Malaysia-controlled air space on its route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing."
MSM ABC.net.au link:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-04-01/malaysian-airlines-mh370-pilots-last-words-clarified/5357872
About Last Words: MSM CNN published April 1, 2014:
"Malaysian authorities said the last message from the airplane cockpit was, "All right, good night.""
"There's only one problem. It turns out, it wasn't true. Malaysia's Transport Ministry said the final voice transmission from the cockpit
of Flight 370 was actually "Good night Malaysian three seven zero." "Malaysian authorities gave no explanation for the discrepancy
between the two quotes. And authorities are still trying to determine whether it was the plane's pilot or copilot who said them."
http://edition.cnn.com/2014/03/31/world/asia/malaysia-airlines-plane/
Don't forget that Kuala Lumpur has 2 airports where travellers normally fly into and out of.
There are 2 passenger airports for KL. KUL is the airport code for both KLIA and LCCT located at Sepang,
and SZB is the code for Subang Airport / Skypark Terminal (Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah Airport) which once
was the international airport until KLIA opened.
Link from TripAdvisor travel site:
http://www.tripadvisor.com.au/Trave...ul.Airport.Getting.Between.Klia.And.Lcct.html
Subang a residential town located in between Shah Alam and Subang Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia. The Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah Airport, which
was the former international airport of Kuala Lumpur is situated in Subang.
It is now the premier hub for corporate and private aviation in Southeast Asia.
Link: [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sultan_Abdul_Aziz_Shah_Airport"]Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah Airport - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/ame]
http://www.mapsofworld.com/maldives/
MSM Article by Wall Street Journal WSJ, Updated: Mar 14, 2014:
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304185104579439403486098062
"Despite the efforts to hide the location of the Boeing 777 with 239 people on board, the plane kept broadcasting its
location hourly via a satellite communication system for five more hours, according to several people familiar with
the investigation. The last of these transmissions was sent from high above the Indian Ocean, according to two of these people."
The first loss of the jet's transponder, which communicates the jet's position, speed and call sign to air traffic control radar,
would require disabling a circuit breaker above and behind an overhead panel. Pilots rarely, if ever, need to access the
circuit breakers, which are reserved for maintenance personnel.
A physical disconnection of the satellite communications system would require extremely detailed knowledge of the aircraft,
its internal structure and its systems."
""Everything so far makes it seem as though someone was controlling the airplane" and attempting to fly it somewhere other
than its intended destination, said Robert Francis, another former NTSB (National Transportation Safety Board) member. "
MSM Article by Flyingmag, Published: Mar 13, 2014:
"A report by the Wall Street Journal says the missing Malaysia Airlines 777 continued trying to broadcast data
over its satcom system long after it dropped off radar."
http://www.flyingmag.com/blogs/fly-wire/did-malaysia-airlines-flight-370-continue-flying-four-hours
MSM Article The Malaysian Insider published March 18, 2014:
http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/...airports-in-mh370-pilots-simulator-says-paper
"Investigations in the flight simulator taken from missing pilot Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah's home revealed a software for five practice
runways, including one belonging to the United States military base on Diego Garcia."
"Investigations into the flight simulator taken from the missing pilot's home showed a software for five practice runways, including one
belonging to the United States, Berita Harian reported"
"Among the software we checked so far is the Male International Airport in Maldives, three airports in India and Sri Lanka, and one
belonging to the US military base in Diego Garcia. All have a runway length of 1,000 metres," a source told the Malay daily.
Police seized the flight simulator from pilot Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah's house last Saturday before reassembling it at the federal police
headquarters in Bukit Aman, where experts were conducting checks.
After 10 days of searching for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, investigators have now conducting extensive background checks on
the 239 people on board the plane, including the pilots, crew and passengers.
The US previously rejected claims that the plane could have landed at their base on the atoll in the central Indian Ocean, which is part of
the British Indian Ocean Territory."
Does anyone find the info about the MH370 normal flight Speed / Altitude etc?
Can somebody calculate based on this info if the sighting in the Maldives could possibly be MH370?