The Wall Street Journal is issuing a correction to its much-talked-about story alleging that the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 continued flying for hours after slipping out of contact very early last Saturday morning. The Journal’s corrected story sticks with that central contention — that the plane continued flying — but bails on how investigators reached that conclusion.
The original story claimed that investigators had secured data from the Rolls Royce engines on the Boeing 777 — data that the engines send to the ground every 30 minutes. Following publication of the story, officials in Malaysia contended that no engine data was received after 1:07 a.m. on Saturday, about a half-hour after the flight took off. So engine data, they said, yielded no conclusion that the flight had continued for four hours, as the Wall Street Journal reported.
Other data, however, did. As a statement from Wall Street Journal spokesman Colleen Schwartz to the Erik Wemple Blog notes:
The Wall Street Journal confirms its report that U.S. investigators suspect Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 stayed in the air for up to four hours past the time it reached its last confirmed location.
13/03/14 Erik Wemple/Washington Post
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The original story claimed that investigators had secured data from the Rolls Royce engines on the Boeing 777 — data that the engines send to the ground every 30 minutes. Following publication of the story, officials in Malaysia contended that no engine data was received after 1:07 a.m. on Saturday, about a half-hour after the flight took off. So engine data, they said, yielded no conclusion that the flight had continued for four hours, as the Wall Street Journal reported.
Other data, however, did. As a statement from Wall Street Journal spokesman Colleen Schwartz to the Erik Wemple Blog notes:
The Wall Street Journal confirms its report that U.S. investigators suspect Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 stayed in the air for up to four hours past the time it reached its last confirmed location.
13/03/14 Erik Wemple/Washington Post
