The last 54 minutes communication between the missing MH370 aircraft and the control tower was revealed by The Telegraph.
The report also disclosed the communication transcript between the co-pilot and control tower and other air traffic controllers, beginning from the time the aircraft took off to its last known location above the South China Sea.
Beginning from 00.36 to the last words of co-pilot Fariq Abdul Hamid, 27: “All right, good night”, the transcript also included exchanges from a point where authorities believe the plane was already sabotaged.
Although analysts said the transcript appeared to be “perfectly routine”, two features of the communication appeared to be odd.
The The daily said the first was a message at 1.07am, notifying that the plane was flying at 35,000 feet which analysts felt was unnecessary as it repeated a message delivered six minutes earlier.
“But it occurred at a crucial moment: it was at 1.07am that the plane’s Acars signalling device sent its last message before being disabled some time in the next 30 minutes, apparently deliberately. A separate transponder was disabled at 1.21am but investigators believe the Acars was shut down before Hamid’s final, 1.19am farewell,” the daily said.
“The other odd feature, one reason for suspicions that the plane’s disappearance was no accident, was that its loss of communication and subsequent sharp turn west occurred at the handover from air traffic controllers in Kuala Lumpur to those in Ho Chi Minh City,” it added.
It also quoted a former British Airways pilot Stephen Buzdygan who said that would be the point for someone who wanted to steal the plane.
“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,” he was quoted.
The Malaysian Airlines (MAS) MH370 went missing on March 8 while on its way from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.
Astro Awani
Sat Mar 22 2014
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