Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 did not dramatically climb to 45,000 and then dive below 23,000 feet after completing a U-turn before it disappeared. That is the conclusion of investigators looking into the disappearance, who say Malaysian radars hadn’t been calibrated precisely enough to draw any conclusions about altitude.
“The primary radar data pertaining to altitude is regarded as unreliable,” said Angus Houston, the retired head of the Australian military who is in charge of the search.
Instead—as The Daily Beast’s own Clive Irving wrote several months ago—the plane was probably not seriously damaged and remained in controlled flight until it ran out of fuel over the Indian Ocean. So no flying into a cave in Pakistan, either.
Meanwhile, according to the New York Times, investigators looking into the disappearance of Flight 370 have concluded that the plane was probably not seriously damaged and remained in controlled flight until it ran out of fuel over the southern Indian Ocean.
Their conclusion, reached in the past few weeks, helped prompt the decision to move the search area hundreds of miles to the southwest.
M'sian radar data re-examined
The main evidence for the conclusion lies in a re-examination of Malaysian radar data from the flight and a more detailed analysis of electronic “handshakes” that the aircraft exchanged with an Inmarsat satellite over the Equator, senior officials involved in the investigation said. The altitude data from that tracking now appears to have been inaccurate, officials said.
24/06/14 Malaysia Chronicle
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“The primary radar data pertaining to altitude is regarded as unreliable,” said Angus Houston, the retired head of the Australian military who is in charge of the search.
Instead—as The Daily Beast’s own Clive Irving wrote several months ago—the plane was probably not seriously damaged and remained in controlled flight until it ran out of fuel over the Indian Ocean. So no flying into a cave in Pakistan, either.
Meanwhile, according to the New York Times, investigators looking into the disappearance of Flight 370 have concluded that the plane was probably not seriously damaged and remained in controlled flight until it ran out of fuel over the southern Indian Ocean.
Their conclusion, reached in the past few weeks, helped prompt the decision to move the search area hundreds of miles to the southwest.
M'sian radar data re-examined
The main evidence for the conclusion lies in a re-examination of Malaysian radar data from the flight and a more detailed analysis of electronic “handshakes” that the aircraft exchanged with an Inmarsat satellite over the Equator, senior officials involved in the investigation said. The altitude data from that tracking now appears to have been inaccurate, officials said.
24/06/14 Malaysia Chronicle
