MA lost contact with MH370 at 12:40 AM. Waits until 7:30 AM to say anything

http://www.malaysiaairlines.com/my/en/site/dark-site.html

by arunitc • 12 years ago

26 4 12 years ago

jayp• 12 years ago

lost contact at 2:40AM, not 12:40AM. Still a long time, but the title exaggerates.

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.

GuiA• 12 years ago

Shit. I hope the situation ends well.

The flight in question: http://flightaware.com/live/flight/MAS370/history/20140307/1...

Some sleuthing about the flight and its potential whereabouts at time loss of contact: http://www.airliners.net/aviation-forums/general_aviation/re...

TrainedMonkey• 12 years ago

Might be SOP, as in they were waiting for confirmation from Chinese side that plane never entered their airspace before releasing anything.

Anyone knows how often carriers lose contact with their planes?

MA lost contact with MH370 at 12:40 AM. Waits until 7:30 AM to say anything

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