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