Final communication from MH370 reveals odd points
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E-mail Xinhua, March 22, 2014
The final 54 minutes of communication between the co-pilot of the Malaysia Airlines MH370 and the control tower has revealed two odd points, the British daily Telegraph reported on Friday.
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| Malaysia's Minister of Defence and Acting Transport Minister Hishammuddin Hussein (2nd R) attends a press conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on March 21, 2014. It was reported that the captain of the missing jet made a phone call just minutes before take-off inside the cockpit. Ahmad Jauhari Yahya, CEO of Malaysia Airlines, said it was under investigation. [Chong Voon Chung/Xinhua] |
The first odd point was a message delivered by the cockpit at 1.07 a.m., saying that the plane was flying at a cruising altitude of 35,000 feet, the daily reported.
"This message was unnecessary as it repeated a call that had already been delivered six minutes earlier," it said.
The other odd point was that the plane lost communications and turned away from its planned course to Beijing at the exact moment when the air traffic control was handed over from Kuala Lumpur of Malaysia to Ho Chi Minh of Vietnam, leading to suspicion that it was a deliberate act, according to the paper.
The daily said the fresh details revailed in the communications add to speculation over of the fate of the jet?-- "whether it was the victim of a sudden accident or a hijacking."
The transcript of the communication, which the Telegragh published online fully, "suggests that if the pilots were involved in a plot they were very careful to hide their true intentions," according to the paper.
MH370 was reported missing on March 8 en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people on board.
