mysteriously lost all radar contact a mere minute and a half later.The flight had vanished without a trace and to this day, what actually happened in the air remains one of the biggest mysteries in aviation history.
A new Netflix docuseries, “MH370: The Plane That Disappeared,” examines several theories as to what happened that night. The flight had about seven hours of fuel, Fuad Sharuji, former crisis director for Malaysia Airlines, says in archived footage.Although MH370 had lost all radar communications, the plane was still electronically speaking to a satellite run by a British company called Inmarsat.“Every hour, the Inmarsat system was checking that the satellite terminal on the aircraft was responding … these pings continued for up to six hours after last contact,” Inmarsat representative Mark Dickinson says in the docuseries.
But the Inmarsat data could only confirm that the flight was still in the air as it did not possess GPS-tracking capabilities.
Still, it was able to determine how far away the aircraft was from the satellite with which it had been communicating.Based on this information, two speculative routes have been drafted showing how and where the plane diverted off course.
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