Malaysian  plane goes missing

On Friday 7^th of March flight MH370 vanished with 239 people on board after taking off from Kuala Lampur at 12.41 am and its last position was known at roughly 1.20am, around 40 minutes in to flight, Malaysian officials failed to clarify the aircrafts last known movements.

India has joined the search widening the net to an area near the Andaman Sea whilst Vietnam has said to have halted its air search while it waits for Malaysia to offer more detail quote “we’ve decided to temporarily suspend some search and rescue activities, pending information from Malaysia” – Vietnam’s deputy minister, Pham Quy Tieu, told AFP.

Vietnam was asked about the claim that the plane had last been detected over Strait of Malacca, suggesting it had crossed the entire peninsula, “’we’ve asked Malaysian authorities twice so far but they have not replied to us”

Malaysia’s head of civilization ‘Azharuddin Abdul Rahman’ was asked why crews were searching the Strait of Malacca, to which he replied ‘there are some things I can tell you and some things I can’t’

He also described the disappearance as an ‘unpredicted mystery’

Relatives of the passengers asked what information the military had given civil officials and the Chinese government has told them “now is not the time to reveal it” although he did disclose that the last words heard from the flight were “All Right, good night” this was the crews response to Malaysian air traffic controllers who had currently told them the plane was entering Vietnamese air space so controllers from Ho Chi Minh city would take over.

Tan Sri Rodzali Daud said that when the plane was detected at 2.40 near Pulau Perak the signal was lost, but a military officer said the lane changed course after Kota Bharu and took a lower altitude, it then made it in to Malacca strait but never made a distress call when they didn’t inform pilots that they were going to change course.

Dan Macchiarella, chair of the aeronautical department at Embry- Riddle Aeronautical University Florida said that “if a jet at such high altitude had engine problems it might still be able to glide ‘for a very long distance’ given the altitude and speed’ he then added ‘it’s pretty baffling ,whatever happened on that flight deck , the pilots did not do what pilots do. They aviate, they navigate and they communicate. If something happens at altitude, the first thing they want to do is … squawk emergency.