MH370News:2014/Day 025
Day 025: Tuesday, 1 April 2014
News Summary
- 5:30 PM
- The full transcript of communications between flight MH370 and Air Traffic Control Kuala Lumpur was released to the public. There is no indication of anything abnormal in the transcript.
Source: DCA (Malaysia) - Interactive Timeline
Media Statements
Tuesday, April 01, 05:45 PM MYT +0800 Malaysia Airlines MH370 Flight Incident - Press Briefing by Hishammuddin Hussein, Minister of Defence and Acting Minister of Transport
1. Briefing for families
Tomorrow a closed-door briefing meeting for the families will be held in Kuala Lumpur.
The Department of Civil Aviation and Malaysia Airlines will lead the briefing, which will be moderated by the Prime Minister’s Special Envoy to China. Technical experts from Malaysia, China and Australia will participate in the briefing, and the Chinese Ambassador to Malaysia will attend.
2. Transcript
Today we are releasing the full transcript of communications between flight MH370 and Air Traffic Control Kuala Lumpur. The transcript has been shared with the families, and is attached as an Annex to this press release (click here for the transcript). There is no indication of anything abnormal in the transcript.
The transcript was initially held as part of the police investigation. Previously, Malaysia Airlines had stated initial investigations indicated that the voice which signed off was that of the co-pilot. The police are working to confirm this belief, and forensic examination of the actual recording is on-going.
The international investigations team and the Malaysian authorities remain of the opinion that, up until the point at which it left military primary radar coverage, MH370’s movements were consistent with deliberate action by someone on the plane.
Source: Ministry of Transport (Malaysia) via the Web Archive
Note: The link to the transcript of communications between flight MH370 and Air Traffic Control was http://www.malaysiaairlines.com/content/dam/mas/master/en/pdf/Audio%20Transcript_MH370%20Pilot-ATC_BIT.pdf.
The Web Archive (or Wayback Machine) captured this document which is available at this url: https://web.archive.org/web/20140401170001/http://www.malaysiaairlines.com/content/dam/mas/master/en/pdf/Audio%20Transcript_MH370%20Pilot-ATC_BIT.pdf.