MH370 Timeline - Departure To Loss Of Contact/0107:29 MYT

01:07:29 MYT Saturday, 8 March 2014

This page provides details for events related to Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 which occurred at or near the time of 01:07:29 MYT Saturday, 8 March 2014.
Note: Malaysian Time (MYT) is Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) plus 8 hours. Return to Timeline

Summary

A Position Report was sent by ACARS over a satellite communication link at 1707:29 UTC (01:07:29 MYT).

This Report collated data generated at 5-minute intervals - at 00:41:43, 00:46:43, 00:51:43, 00:56:43, 01:01:43, and 01:06:43 MYT. Position reports were programmed to be transmitted every 30 minutes.

After this Position Report was sent there were no further ACARS transmissions from the aircraft.

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Event Details

1. Safety Investigation Report MH370/01/2018 1.1.1

   The last Aircraft Communication Addressing and Reporting System (ACARS) (refer to Section 1.9.4 - ACARS) transmission was made through the aircraft’s satellite communication system at 1707:29 UTC (0107:29 MYT).

2. Safety Investigation Report MH370/01/2018 Appendix 1.9A

   
   

   Time 17:07:29	Trans 46818992	Direction Incoming Downlink	AN 9M-MRO	FI MH0370	Medium IOR2	Machine MHKULKJACM001	Raw DTG 071707	SMI DFD	Application RELAY
   Status Normal		Message Type DFD B777 Position Report (NEW)			Source/Destination QXSXMXS

   QU DPCCAMH
   .QXSXMXS 071707
   DFD
   FI  MH0370/AN  9M-MRO
   DT  QXT  IOR2  071707  D03A
   -  MAS001A0      B777 POSITION REPORT        565
   

   ACID	FLT	FM	FLCT	DATE	DPT	DST
   MRO	S370	TR	318	07/03/14	WMKK	ZBAA

   SWID	SFC
   316A-BSM-710-02	18661

   GMT	ALT	CAS	MACH	TAT	SAT	LAT	LONG
   164143	103	168.4	.255	31.1	27.3	2.767	101.715
   164643	10582	261.8	.478	23.4	10.4	3.074	101.760
   165143	21193	301.1	.669	11.6	-11.8	3.553	101.988
   165643	28938	303.1	.783	2.6	-27.4	4.109	102.251
   170143	34998	278.0	.819	-13.4	-43.9	4.708	102.534
   170643	35004	278.4	.821	-13.1	-43.8	5.299	102.813

   GWT	TOTFW	WINDIR	WINDSP	THDG
   492520	49200	140.3	1.25	-33.5
   489200	47800	107.6	9.38	27.3
   486240	46500	91.8	19.50	27.8
   483840	45400	58.4	10.63	26.0
   481880	44500	69.6	17.38	26.8
   480600	43800	70.0	17.13	26.7

   
   

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Notes

1. After the position report was sent at 01:07:29 MYT there were no further ACARS transmissions from the aircraft.

   Source: Safety Investigation Report MH370/01/2018 2.5.1 Summary of Key Observations of the SATCOM Ground Station Logs

   7) No Data-2 Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting (ACARS) traffic was observed after 1707 on 07 March 2014.

2. Source: Safety Investigation Report MH370/01/2018 2.4.4 Aircraft Systems Analysis (page 377)

   All programmed communications via ACARS prior to 1707:29 UTC were working satisfactorily.
   After this last automatic ACARS transmission over the SATCOM, either the ACARS was turned off or the AIMS had a fault that prevented ACARS transmissions while certain other functions such as inertial data forwarding did not appear to be significantly affected.

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