Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak revealed new analysis of satellite data by the UK Air Accidents Investigation Branch and tracking firm Inmarsat indicated the flight ended in the southern Indian Ocean
'It is therefore with deep sadness and regret that I must inform you that, according to this new data, Flight MH370 ended in the southern Indian Ocean.'
Malaysia Airlines on Tuesday March 25,2014 expressed “enormous sorrow” for passengers
of a missing plane believed to have crashed in the southern Indian
Ocean, amid moves to offer support to relatives.
“We all feel enormous sorrow and pain,” Ahmad Jauhari Yahya, the
airline’s chief executive officer, told reporters a day after Malaysia
Prime Minister Najib Razak announced that investigators concluded the
aircraft crashed at sea and its passengers were lost.
HOW UK FIRM TRACKED MISSING FLIGHT MH370 SOUTH
Britain's
Inmarsat used a wave phenomenon discovered in the nineteenth century to
analyse the seven pings its satellite picked up from Malaysia Airlines
Flight MH370 to determine its final destination.
The new findings led Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak to conclude on Monday that the Boeing 777, which disappeared more than two weeks ago, crashed thousands of miles away in the southern Indian Ocean, killing all 239 people on board.
The pings, automatically transmitted every hour from the aircraft after the rest of its communications systems had stopped, indicated it continued flying for hours after it disappeared from its flight path from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.
From the time the signals took to reach the satellite and the angle of elevation, Inmarsat was able to provide two arcs, one north and one south that the aircraft could have taken.
Inmarsat's scientists then interrogated the faint pings using a technique based on the Doppler effect, which describes how a wave changes frequency relative to the movement of an observer, in this case the satellite, a spokesman said.
The new findings led Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak to conclude on Monday that the Boeing 777, which disappeared more than two weeks ago, crashed thousands of miles away in the southern Indian Ocean, killing all 239 people on board.
The pings, automatically transmitted every hour from the aircraft after the rest of its communications systems had stopped, indicated it continued flying for hours after it disappeared from its flight path from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.
From the time the signals took to reach the satellite and the angle of elevation, Inmarsat was able to provide two arcs, one north and one south that the aircraft could have taken.
Inmarsat's scientists then interrogated the faint pings using a technique based on the Doppler effect, which describes how a wave changes frequency relative to the movement of an observer, in this case the satellite, a spokesman said.
Relatives of missing flight MH370's passengers and crew have been told there were no survivors and they had hoped in vain.
No confirmed sighting of the plane has
been made since, but much debris has been found in remote waters off
Australia which might be part of the missing plane.
Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 vanished from civilian radar screens less than an hour after take-off from Kuala Lumpur for Beijing with 239 people on board on March 08,2014
Over 150 of the passengers on board the missing plane were Chinese.
No confirmed sighting of the plane has been made since and there is no clue what went wrong.
Attention and resources in the search for the Boeing 777 had shifted from an initial focus north of the Equator to an increasingly narrowed stretch of rough sea in the southern Indian Ocean, thousands of miles from the original flight path.
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