Revealed New ATC Transcript Flight MH370
Revealed New ATC Transcript Flight MH370
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KUALA LUMPUR - A new report into the disappearance of flight MH370 published by the Malaysian government reveals the shock air traffic controllers (ATC) in Vietnam and Kuala Lumpur experienced as it dawned on them what had happened. The aircraft disappeared two years ago today between Kuala Lumpur and Beijing on March 8, 2014, with 239 people on board.
But the 'Interim Statement and Factual Information MH370 report shows that although originally when the plane went off the radar it appeared no-one treated its silence with any urgency, there was panic between air traffic control supervisors in Kuala Lumpur and Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam. The search continues for MH370 two years to the day after it disappeared on March 8, 2014
As reported Daily Mail, a transcript in the report details a phone conversation between the two air traffic control supervisors. Speaking to his counterpart in Kuala Lumpur, the Vietnamese air controller begins to realise the enormity of what has happened.
In the phone transcript the Vietnamese air traffic controller asks his colleague in Kuala Lumpur if there was any information from Malaysian Airlines about the plane and he's told there is none. The air traffic controller in Vietnam then asks for confirmation of the last position they had contact with the aircraft.
"The last position we (had) contact was about IGARI (over South China Sea)," the air traffic controller in Kuala Lumpur replies.
The air traffic controllers then get increasingly more agitated as they realise that the plane has actually disappeared.
Ho Chi Minh City air traffic controller: "We don’t have the contact I (have) just seen on the radar (for) three five zero."
Kuala Lumpur air traffic controller: "The aircraft disappear (sic) from the screen so you you you try to contact through relay by another aircraft?"
Ho Chi Minh City air traffic controller: "Yeah, yeah, sure, all frequencies we have and and all aircraft but (there's) no response."
Relatives of the 239 people still missing after the disappearance of flight MH370 are pleading with investigators to continue the search for the wreckage.
A phone conversation between air traffic control supervisors relives the shock and horror experienced when it became clear the Malaysian airliner had disappeared
Tuesday marked the second anniversary of the mysterious disappearance of the Malaysia Airlines flight, which vanished seemingly into thin air en-route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.
Dozens of families who had gathered in Kuala Lumpur for a memorial ceremony this weekend say the search should not stop until 'something' is found.
Australian-led search teams are still combing a 120,000 sq km area of the southern Indian Ocean. Only one confirmed piece of debris, a part of wing called a flaperon, has been found, on Reunion Island.
But the 'Interim Statement and Factual Information MH370 report shows that although originally when the plane went off the radar it appeared no-one treated its silence with any urgency, there was panic between air traffic control supervisors in Kuala Lumpur and Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam. The search continues for MH370 two years to the day after it disappeared on March 8, 2014
As reported Daily Mail, a transcript in the report details a phone conversation between the two air traffic control supervisors. Speaking to his counterpart in Kuala Lumpur, the Vietnamese air controller begins to realise the enormity of what has happened.
In the phone transcript the Vietnamese air traffic controller asks his colleague in Kuala Lumpur if there was any information from Malaysian Airlines about the plane and he's told there is none. The air traffic controller in Vietnam then asks for confirmation of the last position they had contact with the aircraft.
"The last position we (had) contact was about IGARI (over South China Sea)," the air traffic controller in Kuala Lumpur replies.
The air traffic controllers then get increasingly more agitated as they realise that the plane has actually disappeared.
Ho Chi Minh City air traffic controller: "We don’t have the contact I (have) just seen on the radar (for) three five zero."
Kuala Lumpur air traffic controller: "The aircraft disappear (sic) from the screen so you you you try to contact through relay by another aircraft?"
Ho Chi Minh City air traffic controller: "Yeah, yeah, sure, all frequencies we have and and all aircraft but (there's) no response."
Relatives of the 239 people still missing after the disappearance of flight MH370 are pleading with investigators to continue the search for the wreckage.
A phone conversation between air traffic control supervisors relives the shock and horror experienced when it became clear the Malaysian airliner had disappeared
Tuesday marked the second anniversary of the mysterious disappearance of the Malaysia Airlines flight, which vanished seemingly into thin air en-route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.
Dozens of families who had gathered in Kuala Lumpur for a memorial ceremony this weekend say the search should not stop until 'something' is found.
Australian-led search teams are still combing a 120,000 sq km area of the southern Indian Ocean. Only one confirmed piece of debris, a part of wing called a flaperon, has been found, on Reunion Island.
(rnz)
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