Journal of Navigation
- Journal of Navigation / Volume 68 / Issue 01 / January 2015, pp 1-22
- Copyright © The Royal Institute of Navigation 2014 This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/>, which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
- DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S037346331400068X (About DOI), Published online: 08 October 2014
- OPEN ACCESS
The Search for MH370
Chris Ashtona1 c1, Alan Shuster Brucea1, Gary Colledgea1 and Mark Dickinsona1
a1 (Inmarsat)
Abstract
At 17:22 UTC on 7th March 2014 Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 carrying 239 passengers and crew from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing lost contact with Air Traffic Control and was subsequently reported missing. Over the following days an extensive air and sea search was made around the last reported location of the aircraft in the Gulf of Thailand without success. Subsequent analysis of signals transmitted by the aircraft's satellite communications terminal to Inmarsat's 3F1 Indian Ocean Region satellite indicated that the aircraft continued to fly for several hours after loss of contact, resulting in the search moving to the southern Indian Ocean. This paper presents an analysis of the satellite signals that resulted in the change of search area.
(Received September 04 2014)
(Accepted September 14 2014)
(Online publication October 07 2014)
KEY WORDS
- MH370;
- Air Accident;
- Satellite Communications
Correspondence
c1 (Email: chris.ashton@inmarsat.com)
