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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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Showing posts with label Range. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Range. Show all posts

Thursday, May 29, 2014

MH370's estimated maximum range, based on UAE343, with Inmarsat Arcs added

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I updated my MH370's estimated maximum range, based on UAE343 image, by adding the Inmarsat Arcs that were shown on a Malaysian Government image dated 17/03/2014. (I don't have the link for it.)

I'm still analyzing the Inmarsat MH370 Data Communication Logs (PDF), but I don't have anything ready to post yet.

In case you hadn't heard, today they said none of the underwater pings that they had detected were from MH370's black boxes. That came as no surprise to me, considering the fact that the signals they detected were outside of the black box tolerance specifications.

Friday, May 23, 2014

MH370's estimated maximum range, based on UAE343

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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.