MH370 flight data released by the Malaysian government and British satellite firm Inmarsat ISA.L came out on Tuesday, reports Reuters. The MH370 flight data released can now reportedly be used to determine the path of missing Malaysia Airlines MASM.KL Flight MH370.
The MH370 flight data released by Malaysia and the UK is in response to the persuasion by the flight's passenger loved ones for greater transparency on information.
The MH370 flight data released from satellite communications with the plane runs to 47 pages in a report prepared by Inmarsat, reports BBC. It reportedly features hourly "handshakes", or so-called network log-on confirmations after the jet vanished from radar screens on March 8 this year.
According to The Guardian, the families of the passengers are now hoping that opening up the MH370 flight data released to the examination of more experts can help put an end to the plane's search. It has been nearly three months since the Boeing BA.N 777 with disappeared along with 239 passengers and crew.
Before the MH370 flight data released by the UK and Malaysian government came out, passengers' relatives had been crying for more transparency and effort from the Malaysian government. According to CNN, the families had been accusing the Malaysian government of holding back information.
Sarah Bajc, the American partner of a passenger told Reuters from Beijing, "When we first asked for the data it was more than two months ago. I never dreamed it would be such an obstacle to overcome." The aircraft is known to have gone descended and possibly disappeared along Indian Ocean off western Australia, reports an analysis of the data by Inmarsat and other investigators.
Malaysian investigators reportedly suspect that someone could have shut off MH370's data links, which. The shutting off of the MH370 flight data released now would have made the plane impossible to track. However, according to investigators, nothing suspicious about the crew or passengers have turned up far.
According to Reuters, an Inmarsat satellite picked up a handful of handshake "pings" hours after the aircraft disappeared. This reportedly indicates that the plane could have continued flying for hours after leaving radar. This MH370 flight data released now significantly narrows the search to an area of the Indian Ocean.
On Tuesday, the dense technical data released reportedly lists in detail the satellite communications from before the MH370's take-off on a Saturday morning at 12:41 a.m. local time (1641 GMT), down to a final "partial handshake" transmitted by the plane at 8:19 a.m. (0019 GMT). The MH370 flight data released apparently includes a final transmission from the plane 8 seconds later. After that, there was no further response.
According to an Inmarsat spokesman, the data also featured two "telephony calls" which were made by Malaysia Airlines from the ground. These were produced at 1839 GMT and 2313 GMT and have since then been unanswered by the plane. The Inmarsat spokesman said that the existence of the two attempted calls was already in the public domain before the MH370 flight data released Tuesday.
The spokesman said the company had released all the data it had associated with the flight, "These 47 pages represent all the data communication logs we have in relation for MH370 and that last flight."
Experts on flight tracking who have been advising the families can now analyze the MH370 flight data released to identify whether the search area could be refined. This also in order to determine if Inmarsat and other officials have missed anything during the other searches.
However, there were complaints that the report released on Tuesday was missing data removed to improve readability, as well as comparable records from previous flights on MH370's route that the families had requested.
The search in an area around 1,550 km (960 miles) northwest of Perth, Australia has seemingly been narrowed due to acoustic signals which has been believed to have come from the aircraft's "black box." However, after what can be called 'the most extensive search in aviation history' failed to turn up any trace of Flight MH370, officials said that it could take a year to search the 60,000 sq km (23,000 sq mile) area where the plane could have come down.
MH370 flight data released, and now Malaysia, China and Australia have agreed that in mid-May, they will re-examine all data related to the missing plane. Reuters reports that Malaysia is also leading an official international investigation under United Nations rules into the causes of the baffling incident.
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