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January 16, 2017: Just as I predicted would eventually happen (back on December 16, 2014), the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) has ended their search for the MH370 plane crash wreckage in their search area without ever finding MH370 in it: Underwater search of 120,000 square-kilometre area in the southern Indian Ocean completed. Wreckage of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 not found there. Malaysia, China and Australia announce decision to suspend the underwater search. "Paul Kennedy, the project director of Fugro – the Dutch company leading the search – acknowledged on Thursday [July 21, 2016] that, if the plane was not found there, "it means it's somewhere else"."

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Monday, August 3, 2015

Hypothetical MH370 Flight Path to Perth or Diego Garcia

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 As a result of the discovery of debris from MH370 that was found on Reunion Island (near Madagascar), on the beach at Saint-Andre, on Wednesday, July 29, 2015, I created a picture that shows the following:

  • the known flight path that MH370 took, up to 18:22 UTC
  • MH370's estimated maximum range (based on UAE343)
  • the MH370 search area
  • JORN's coverage area
  • the location where the debris was found
  • a hypothetical flight path to Perth, Australia
  • a hypothetical flight path to Diego Garcia

Timeline of critical events during MH370's flight:

17:07 UTC MH370 ACARS turned off
17:21 UTC MH370 Transponder turned off
18:22 UTC last Malaysian military radar signal of MH370
18:25 UTC MH370 initiated a Log-on to the satellite/ground station

I plotted the hypothetical flight plans on SkyVector:

Flight Path to Perth:
WMKK WMKN IGARI BITOD IGARI WMKP NILAM VIROT YPPH

Flight Path to Diego Garcia:
WMKK WMKN IGARI BITOD IGARI WMKP NILAM KADAP FJDG

I have several questions about MH370 that I have never seen answered by any investigative journalist:

1) If MH370 crashed in the search area, why didn't JORN detect it?
2) Why did the MH370 searchers waste 8 weeks investigating underwater signals they detected that they knew, at the time they detected them, were outside of the specifications for an Underwater Locator Beacon (ULB)?
3) Why did Inmarsat withhold MH370's initial Log-on Messages?

Please see previous blog posts and links about events that occurred during the search for MH370.
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