MH- 370: Decoding the Events

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March 8 2014: Exactly 5 and half year back, A passenger Jet operated by Malaysia Airlines departed from Kuala Lampur Airport, the flight was en route to Beijing, China and the travelling time was approximately 8 Hours.

According to the reports: The Plane departed Kuala Lampur Airport at Midnight 12:40 a.m. (Local time) and was supposed to cross the Malaysian Territory in about 1 Hours time, which it did though. But do you know how the people working in the ATC come to know where the aircraft exactly is? There are various checkpoints set in the Communications panel before the flight( It contains basically the co- ordinates of the region) so, when the aircraft passes on those points the ATC comes to know the exact coordinates of the plane. On that day the same procedure was followed, various coordinates of the checkpoints were entered in the Communications Panel and the aircraft has passed a Total of 2 Checkpoints( Assumption) in the Malaysian Airspace and was about the enter the ocean. Now here is where some of the problems gets started, the next Checkpoint was Supposed to be IGARI in the Vietnamese airspace but unfortunately the plane never made it there. After nearly 2 Hours after its takeoff the plane disappeared from the radar. Seeing this the ATC control room tried to establish their connection with the Aircraft but all went in vein. The plane was declared missing after a few hours and various rumors came up with it.

The next day a Group of Countries came together and pulled out their resources and started searching for the plane, they had searched for an area bigger than the size of some countries but there was no evidence of the aircraft. However one of the Companies that provides satellite services called the INMARSET had picked up the signals from the aircraft's systems. The information also revealed some of the shocking chain of events had had happened after the plane went off the radar. The report suggested that the plane took at least 2 sharp Turns and went all the way to a new direction.

That was the day when MH_ 370 Disappeared and created a name for Itself known as the Greatest Aviation Mystery. There were many theories developed by they eventually phased out as the time passed away and now nobody knows what had gone so Wrong on that fateful day.

Analysis:-

1) Disappearance:- An Aircraft is a complex machine, everything is computerized in it, there are more then 20,000 sensors present in a smaller aircraft each monitoring the performance of it while flying. There is however a special type of sensor called Transponder which tells the position of the aircraft to the ATC. Transponder is like a GPS to an Airplane, which tells the location of the aircraft. Think of it like this, The transponder cannot be switched off as its strongly advised by the FAA to switch on the Transponder while in Flight. So how come the Transponder was off? One possibility might be that, there might have been an electrical failure in the aircraft. Due to power outage the sensors cannot work, but that might have also lead to an overall System Failure.

2) Change of Route:- Normally the aircraft's are flown directly by the autopilots, the Pilots are there to monitor the performance and take any action in the event of emergency. To fly the plane in an autopilot mode, the pilots have to enter some information in the computer system through which the autopilot flies the plane. But, there might have been a possibility that the the wrong information might had been entered either by mistake or Deliberately.

3) Tracked:- The most Important question is how come the plane could have been tracked by the satellites? There are chances that the aircraft might have been hijacked and was flying according to the demands or chances that it was a Ghost Plane something that happened on Helios Plane Crash.

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