ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 320559
| Date: | Saturday 8 March 2014 |
| Time: | 08:11 |
| Type: |  Boeing 777-2H6ER |
| Owner/operator: | Malaysia Airlines |
| Registration: | 9M-MRO |
| MSN: | 28420/404 |
| Year of manufacture: | 2002 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 53471 hours |
| Cycles: | 7526 flights |
| Engine model: | Rolls-Royce Trent 892B |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 239 / Occupants: 239 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | within Indian Ocean -
 Indian Ocean
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
| Departure airport: | Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KUL/WMKK) |
| Beijing-Capital International Airport (PEK/ZBAA) | |
| Investigating agency: | MH370 |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia to Beijing, China was reported missing on March 8, 2014. There were 227 passengers and 12 crew members on board.
The Boeing 777-2H6ER took off from Kuala Lumpur International Airport's runway 32R at 00:41. At 00:42 the flight was cleared to climb to FL180 and was issued a direct track by Lumpur Approach to the IGARI waypoint. MH370 was then transferred to Lumpur Radar and was cleared to climb to FL250. At 00:50 the flight was further cleared to the planned cruising altitude of FL350. MH370 reported maintaining FL350 at 01:07. Last radio contact was at 01:19 when the Kuala Lumpur Radar controller instructed the flight to contact the radio frequency of Ho Chi Minh Air Traffic Control Centre, Vietnam: "Malaysian Three Seven Zero contact Ho Chi Minh 120 decimal 9 Good Night". One of the flight crew members replied: "Good night, Malaysian Three Seven Zero."
At 01:21 MH370 was observed on the radar screen of the Kuala Lumpur Radar controller as it passed over waypoint IGARI. Nine seconds later the radar label for MH370 disappeared from the radar screen. The transponder was switched off.
At 01:38 Ho Chi Minh ATCC contacted Kuala Lumpur ATCC on the whereabouts of MH370. Kuala Lumpur ATCC contacted the airline's operations centre, Singapore ACC, Hong Kong ACC, and Phnom Penh ACC, failing to establish the location of MH370.
Meanwhile, the airplane flew in a westerly direction back over peninsular Malaysia before turning northwest. Primary radar data showed that the aircraft tracked along the Malacca Strait. During this time the aircraft passed close to waypoints VAMPI, MEKAR, NILAM and possibly IGOGU along a section of airway N571. The final primary radar fix occurred at 02:22.
From then on seven handshakes between the aircraft's SATCOM system and the Inmarsat ground station were recorded. Last satellite data was recorded at 08:11 Malaysian time.
Initially search efforts focused on the South China Sea area. On 24 March 2014 further analysis of the Inmarsat satellite data indicated that MH370 flew south and ended its flight in the southern part of the Indian Ocean.
A surface search was conducted of probable impact areas along an arc, identified by calculations based on Inmarsat data. The search was carried out from 18 March - 28 April 2014. This search effort was undertaken by an international fleet of aircraft and ships with the search areas over this time progressing generally from an initial southwest location along the arc in a north-easterly direction. No debris associated with MH370 was identified either from the surface search, acoustic search or from the ocean floor search in the vicinity of acoustic detections, which were initially believed to have been from the pingers on the flight recorders. The ocean floor search was completed on 28 May 2014.
On June 26 the ATSB published a new search area based on refinements to the analysis of both the flight and satellite data. The priority area of approximately 60,000 km2 extends along the arc for 650 km in a northeast direction from Broken Ridge, an underwater ridge. The width of the priority search area is 93 km.
On July 29, 2015 a flapperon washed ashore on the French island of Réunion in the Indian Ocean. On August 5 it was established to have been from MH370.
The Team is unable to determine the real cause for the disappearance of MH370.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
mh370search.com
DCA Malaysia
ATC Transcript
Malaysia Airlines
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 9 August 2012 | 9M-MRO | Malaysia Airlines | 0 | Shanghai-Pudong International Airport (PVG/ZSPD) |  |
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photo (c) ATSB; 20 July 2016
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photo (c) Mark Ijsseldijk; Tokyo-Narita Airport (NRT/RJAA); 25 August 2010
photo (c) Stanley Page; Frankfurt International Airport (FRA/EDDF); 28 September 2013
photo (c) via Werner Fischdick; Newark-Liberty International Airport, NJ (EWR/KEWR); January 2004
photo (c) Stemoc; Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport (CDG/LFPG); 26 December 2011
photo (c) Ahmet Akin Diler; Istanbul-Atatürk International Airport (IST/LTBA); 02 December 2009
photo (c) Joao Ponces; Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KUL/WMKK); 04 April 2013
photo (c) Paul Rowbotham; Los Angeles International Airport, CA (LAX/KLAX); October 2013
photo (c) Willem Göebel; Amsterdam-Schiphol International Airport (AMS/EHAM); 03 February 2013
photo (c) Wolfgang Bergemann; Tokyo-Narita Airport (NRT/RJAA); 11 December 2006
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