Lecturer: Dr. Rahizar Bin Ramli
Title: MH370
Members: Matric No:
Kong Sung Chuan KEM110017
Loo Liang Yong KEM110023 Tan Kia Chun KEM110053
Overview:
On 8 March 2014, a Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 departed from Kuala Lumpur International Airport at 12.41am and was due to arrive in Beijing at 6.30am. Nothing was unusual until it lost contact less than an hour after takeoff. The missing of MH370 plane is shocking and it has become the attention of the world. In Flight MH370, there were 153 Chinese, 38 Malaysians, 7 Indonesians, 6 Australians, 5 Indians, 4 French, 3 Americans, 2 each from New Zealand, Ukraine and Canada, one each from Russia, Taiwan, and Netherlands, and also two men, in which one confirmed as Iranian. He travelled under stolen Italian and Austrian passports. Based on the report, the plane sent its last ACARS transmission at 1.07am. ACARS transmission is a service that allows computer abroad the plane to communicate to computers on the ground. Sometimes afterwards, it was silenced and the expected transmission on 1.37am was not sent. At 2.15am, Malaysian military radar plotted Flight MH370 at a point of south of Phuket island in the Strait of Malacca, west of its last known location. Thai military radar logs also confirmed that the plane turned west and then north over Andaman Sea.
Despite of the rumors that the whole accident might be linked to terrorism, the Malaysian police have opened an investigation into the pilots of flight MH370, as search efforts to locate the missing plane grow ever more desperate. The remaining crew and passengers of the Malaysia Airlines flight, which vanished on 8 March, are also being investigated. Both of the pilots of flight MH370, Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah and his co-pilot Fariq Abdul Hamid have become a particular focus in light of a number of revelations. From the information given by