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At 18:22 UTC, UAE343 was flying at 34,000 feet in close proximity to where they identified MH370 as being at that same time (Last Air Defense Radar Point on their Preliminary Report map).
Based on that fact, I created a circle, with an origin at KUL, to show the estimated maximum straight line range that MH370 could have traveled shortly before the last satellite communication at 00:19 UTC.
Reference points at 00:13 UTC:
A) UAE343, DXB
B) AXM5878, KUL
C) CCA1877, PEK
D) Inmarsat-3 F1 Satellite
Notes:
DXB is Dubai International Airport in Dubai, United Arab Emirates
KUL is Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Sepang (near Kuala Lumpur), Malaysia
PEK is Beijing Capital International Airport in Beijing, People's Republic of China
Inmarsat-3 F1 Satellite is located at 0N 64.5E 35,800 km above sea level. It is a geostationary satellite, but it wobbles up and down over the equator, in a figure-8 pattern.
I captured the screen shot using FlightRadar24 and filtered on Callsigns UAE343, AXM5878, and CCA1877.
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