MA lost contact with MH370 at 12:40 AM. Waits until 7:30 AM to say anything

Posted by arunitc on Friday March 07, 2014 @08:41PM
from the malaysiaairlines.com dept.

http://www.malaysiaairlines.com/my/en/site/dark-site.html

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Re:MA lost contact with MH370 at 12:40 AM. Waits until 7:30 ... by GuiA on Friday March 07, 2014 @09:01PM (#7363934)

Shit. I hope the situation ends well.

The flight in question: http://flightaware.com/live/flight/MAS370/history/20140307/1...

Some sleuthing about the flight and its potential whereabouts at time loss of contact: http://www.airliners.net/aviation-forums/general_aviation/re...

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Re:MA lost contact with MH370 at 12:40 AM. Waits until 7:30 ... by TrainedMonkey on Friday March 07, 2014 @09:05PM (#7363941)

Might be SOP, as in they were waiting for confirmation from Chinese side that plane never entered their airspace before releasing anything.

Anyone knows how often carriers lose contact with their planes?

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Re:MA lost contact with MH370 at 12:40 AM. Waits until 7:30 ... by jayp on Friday March 07, 2014 @08:59PM (#7363932)

lost contact at 2:40AM, not 12:40AM. Still a long time, but the title exaggerates.

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Re:MA lost contact with MH370 at 12:40 AM. Waits until 7:30 ... by lucaspiller on Friday March 07, 2014 @09:09PM (#7363949)

Discussions in /r/aviation suggest that this is normal procedure. As the aircraft had 7 hours of fuel onboard, they waited until then before announcing it.

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