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March 21, 2014, 11:35 am
Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) Loadmaster Sergeant Adam Roberts scans the ocean while onboard a C-130J Hercules as it flies over the southern Indian Ocean during the search for missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 in this picture released by the Australian Defence Force.
The final communications within the cockpit of the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 have reportedly been revealed.
A transcript of the last 54 minutes of conversations between the co-pilot, the control tower and other air traffic authorities, includes a point at which investigators believe the plane was sabotaged.
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Experts say the messages and conversation appeared "perfectly routine" but pointed out that two features were potentially odd.
At 1:07am, a message from the cockpit told authorities that the plane was flying at 35,000ft. This raised some eyebrows as it repeated a message delivered only six minutes earlier.
Adding to the suspicion of crew intervention, it happened just moments before the plane's ACARS signalling device sent its final message before being disabled.
The final communications within the cockpit of the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 have been revealed. Photo: AP.
Secondly, it appears that the loss of communication and subsequent change of MH370's direction occurred at the point where the air traffic control in Kuala Lumpur were to handover to those in Ho Chi Minh City.
"If I was going to steal the aeroplane, that would be the point I would do it," said Stephen Buzdygan, a former British Airways pilot.
"There might be a bit of dead space between the air traffic controllers. It was the only time during the flight they would maybe not have been able to be seen from the ground."
The development was reported in London's Telegraph, which claimed to have received no confirmation from authorities.
The Daily Telegraph has repeatedly asked Malaysia Airlines, Malaysia's Civil Aviation Authority and the office of Najib Razak, the Malaysian prime minister, to confirm the communications record; only the prime minister's office responded, saying it would not release this data.
No sight of potential MH370 debris in southern Indian Ocean
Spotter planes spent a second fruitless day scouring a remote stretch of the Indian Ocean for wreckage from a Malaysian jet, as Chinese relatives of the missing passengers clashed with Malaysian officials.
The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) has tasked three RAAF P3 Orion aircraft, a New Zealand P3 RAAF Orion aircraft and two ultra long range commercial jets to search a 36,000 square kilometre area about 2500 kilometres south-west of Perth today.
Australian and US military aircraft usually used for anti-submarine operations on Friday criss-crossed the isolated search area 2500 kilometres southwest of Perth, looking for two floating objects that had shown up on grainy satellite photos taken several days before.
After two weeks of false leads, Australia revived the investigation on the mysterious disappearance of flight MH370 when it announced the detection of two "objects" in the southern Indian Ocean, some 2500 kilometres southwest of Perth in western Australia.
Although the images were too indistinct to confirm as debris from Flight MH370, Australian and Malaysian officials said they represented the most "credible" leads to date in the hunt for the plane and its 239 passengers and crew.
Friday's search concluded "without any sightings", the Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) said in a statement.
The planes flew low under the cloud cover rather than rely on radar, after poor weather the day before hampered the search.
"We replanned the search to be visual, so aircraft flying relatively low, with very highly skilled observers looking out of the windows," said AMSA official John Young.
"This means aircraft operating more closely together and we will need more aircraft for this task."
Friday's aerial contingent comprised three Australian air force P-3 Orions, a US Navy P-8 Poseidon and a civil Bombardier Global Express jet.
The distance from the west coast of Australia allows the planes only about two hours of actual search time before they must turn around with enough fuel to get back to Perth.
Two merchant ships were helping with the search, but Australia's HMAS Success, which is capable of retrieving any wreckage, was still days away.
"This is going to be a long haul," Malaysian Transport Minister Hishammuddin Hussein told a daily press briefing in Kuala Lumpur.
A map shows the search areas for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370. Photo: AP.
Malaysia has been criticised for its handling of the crisis, especially by Chinese relatives who have accused authorities and the flag-carrier airline of providing insufficient or misleading information.
A delegation of Malaysian government and military officials flew to Beijing for what turned out to be a bad-tempered meeting with relatives.
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The event began with family members yelling at delegates to stand up when they were being introduced.
"You have wasted so much time," shouted one.
A relative of Chinese passengers aboard the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 walks out of a hotel ballroom after attending a news briefing organised by the airlines' officials in Beijing. Photo: AP.
The nature of the events that diverted MH370 from its intended flight path on March 8 remain shrouded in mystery, although Malaysian investigators have stuck to their assumption that it was the result of a "deliberate action" by someone on board.
Three scenarios have gained particular attention: hijacking, pilot sabotage, and a sudden mid-air crisis that incapacitated the flight crew and left the plane to fly on auto-pilot for several hours until it ran out of fuel and crashed.
If the objects in the remote southern Indian Ocean are shown to have come from MH370, some analysts believe the hijacking theory will lose ground.
The often storm-swept area is far from recognised shipping lanes and the satellite images were taken on March 16, meaning the objects would have been drifting for days in a volatile maritime region.
If debris is found, the mammoth task remains of locating the "black box" flight data recorder, which offers the best chance of peeling back the layers of confusion and mystery surrounding MH370.
The three Australian P3 Orions joined by a high-tech US Navy P8 Poseidon aircraft and a civilian Bombardier Global Express jet to search the 23,000 square km (8,900 sq mile) zone on Friday, the Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) said.
A Norwegian merchant ship that had been diverted to the area on Thursday was still searching there and another vessel would arrive later on Friday.
China is now sending three warships to join the search for possible pieces of the missing Malaysia Airlines plane in the southern Indian Ocean, the government said Friday.
The ships are en route to the area where a satellite image showed two large objects floating about 2300 kilometres west of Australia, the National Maritime Search and Rescue Centre said Friday.
It gave no indication when they might arrive at the remote site, but earlier Chinese news reports said the ships — the Kunlunshan, the Haikou and the Qiandaohu — were searching near the Indonesian island of Sumatra.
The centre said a fourth Chinese vessel, the icebreaker Snow Dragon, is in the western Australian port of Perth following a trip to Antarctica and might join the search.
The search comes as one aviation expert said that if the plane crashed in the Indian Ocean it may never be found.
Rémi Jouty, head of the Bureau d’Enquêtes et d’Analyses, said that there would be much more work involved in an undersea search if objects found by satellites turned out to be from the missing plane.
“The only thing I can say is it will be most difficult and the recovery [of the wreckage on the seabed] is not guaranteed,” Mr Jouty told the Financial Times.
Four Australian aircraft completed the search over the 23,000 square kilometre area south-west of Perth, returning with no leads.
The Australian Maritime Safety Authority said the satellite images of the objects are credible but they may not be from the plane.
"It is a very long journey to the site and unfortunately, aircraft can only have one or two hours over the search area before they need to return to the mainland for fuel," Warren Truss, who is currently Australia's acting prime minister while Tony Abbott is overseas, told the ABC. He said that weather conditions in the area were poor and may get worse.
"And so clearly this is a very, very difficult and challenging search. Weather conditions are not particularly good and risk that they may deteriorate," Truss said.
"Search operations in the Southern Indian Ocean for the missing Malaysia Airlines aircraft will continue today in the Australian Search and Rescue Region," AMSA said in a statement.
"Today’s search will utilise four military aircraft, including two RAAF Orions, tasked by the Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) to search a 23,000 kilometre area, about 2500 kilometres south-west of Perth.
"A merchant ship remains in the search area. Another merchant ship is en route to the area and is expected to arrive tonight.
"A total of six merchant ships have assisted in the search since a shipping broadcast was issued by AMSA on Monday night.
"The current search area has been identified based on satellite data imagery from the Australian Geospatial-Intelligence Organisation (AGO) provided to AMSA on Thursday morning.
"Analysis of the imagery by AGO identified two objects possibly relating to the missing aircraft. The images have been assessed as being credible but it is possible they do not relate to the search for MH370.
"The Royal Australian Navy HMAS Success is also en route to the search area and is due in the area on 22 March."
AMSA said that there had been no reported sightings of wreckage yet.
"It would be very nice if you could see a whole wing floating there, then you could say, 'OK that's an airplane,'" said Sean O'Connor, an imagery analyst with IHS Jane's. In the case of these satellite images, "you can't tell what it is" so closer examination is critical.
Another analyst said the debris is most likely not pieces of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. There have been several false leads since the Boeing 777 disappeared March 8 above the Gulf of Thailand en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.
"The chances of it being debris from the airplane are probably small, and the chances of it being debris from other shipping are probably large," said Jason Middleton, an aviation professor at the University of New South Wales in Sydney.
Speaking to reporters in Papua New Guinea, Mr Abbott defended announcing the possible link to the plane in parliament.
He said it was the most "serious" lead so far in the search.
"We don't know what that satellite saw until we get much closer look at it, but this is the most tangible clue in what's been an utterly baffling mystery," Mr Abbott said on Thursday night.
Defence Minister David Johnston was also cautious of raising any false hopes.
"We are several days away from having an idea of the credibility and veracity of this (satellite) report," Senator Johnston told ABC TV.
The Australian Navy ship HMAS Success is en route to aid in the search when it recommences at first light.
New phase
Hishammuddin Hussein, Malaysia's Acting Transport Minister, says that if the objects in the South Indian Ocean are confirmed to be from the missing Boeing 777-200, a new phase of the search will focus on an international operation to find the black box recorder.
He said that the black box is the vital clue in establishing exactly what happened to the MH370.
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Two objects in the southern Indian Ocean remain the target for Australian authorities as the search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 continues on Friday. Photo: Department of Defence.
The black box of an aircraft records extensive data from the flight, including engine information, and changes to a plane's controls, altitude and oxygen levels. More importantly, it records conversations from within the cockpit, which will prove crucial to unlocking the mystery of the missing MH370.
"For families around the world, the one piece of information they want most is the information we just don’t have: the location of MH370," Hussein told a press conference
"Our primary focus has always been to find the aircraft. And with every passing day, our efforts have intensified.
"Yesterday I said that we wanted to reduce the area of the search. We now have a credible lead. There remains much work to be done to deploy the assets. This work will continue overnight."
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