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MA lost contact with MH370 at 12:40 AM. Waits until 7:30 AM to say anything
- jayp 13y agolost contact at 2:40AM, not 12:40AM. Still a long time, but the title exaggerates.
- lucaspiller 13y agoDiscussions in /r/aviation suggest that this is normal procedure. As the aircraft had 7 hours of fuel onboard, they waited until then before announcing it.
- GuiA 13y agoShit. I hope the situation ends well. The flight in question: http://flightaware.com/live/flight/MAS370/history/20140307/1635Z/WMKK/ZBAA http://flightaware.com/live/flight/MAS370/history/20140307/1... Some sleuthing about the flight and its potential whereabouts at time loss of contact: http://www.airliners.net/aviation-forums/general_aviation/read.main/6013265/ http://www.airliners.net/aviation-forums/general_aviation/re...
- TrainedMonkey 13y agoMight be SOP, as in they were waiting for confirmation from Chinese side that plane never entered their airspace before releasing anything. Anyone knows how often carriers lose contact with their planes?