On March 8, 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 took off on schedule from
Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KUL) to Beijing (PEK) at 00:40 (hh:mm) MYT.
About one hour into the flight, MH370 disappeared from the radar off the east
coast of Malaysia. Intense searches were launched when the flight failed to
arrive Beijing. The search areas had since been widened when data indicated
the flight could have flown from the east coast of Malaysia to the west coast
and then over the Indian Ocean. Despite intense searches by multiple nations,
MH370 was not found three months later.
The Flightradar24.com website recorded flight activities on the radar around
the world. It logged MH370 from take off at 2014-03-08 00:41AM MYT
(16:41 UTC)
to the time the flight disappeared from the monitor at around 01:38 MYT (17:38
UTC). Through the courtesy of Flightradar24.com, a video was captured from the
website for the one-hour duration of flight MH370. The video was made
available below after being edited for clarity, added titles, added background
music, and fast-forwarded the speed 12-times.
On the radar, Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 was identified as MAS370. The flight first emerged at the bottom of the monitor among a cluster of airplanes at Kuala Lumpur International Airport. These were the chronological events:
16:45 UTC (00:45 MYT) - MH370 took off from KUL.
17:00 UTC - After leaving the KUL air space, MH370 flew in a north by northeast direction over Taman Negara, Malaysia National Park.
17:08 UTC - The flight crossed from Pahang State to Kelantan State in Malaysia.
17:18 UTC, MH370 flew over the coastal city Kuala Terengganu and the island Palau Redang in South China Sea.
17:35 UTC approximately, MH370 disappeared from the monitor.
MH370 disappeared with 227 passengers and 12 crew members onboard. Since
then, there had been a nonstop flow of speculations about the airplane in the
news media ranging from encountering technical difficulties to human interventions
to alien abduction, etc. For more information and updates please refer to
Wikipedia - Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.
The original video was made available through the courtesy of flightradar24.com
in http://www.flightradar24.com/2014-03-07/16:41/12x/6.59,104.89/7
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