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Thailand and Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370
On Saturday, 8 March 2014 Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 departed from Kuala Lumpur International Airport at 00:42 am (MYT) and was expected to arrive in Beijing at 6:30 am (MYT). The Boeing 777-200ER was carrying 12 crew and 227 passengers. Communication with the aircraft was lost when it was in the vicinity of waypoint IGARI over the South China Sea. Instead of proceeding toward Vietnam en-route to China the aircraft made a turn-back west across the Malay Peninsula; changed direction again and flew north west towards the Andaman Sea; and then turned south. Flight MH370 ended in the southern Indian Ocean.
Thailand supplied one aircraft[1] to support the initial search for MH370 which began in the South China Sea, east of Malaysia, and continued until 15th March.
A concurrent search was conducted west of the Malay Peninsula, covering areas in the Strait of Malacca, Andaman Sea and the Bay of Bengal, and West of Sumatra. Thailand joined eleven other countries contributing to this stage of the search for MH370.
The Thai military conducted search operations in the northern part of Thailand with all available aircraft.[2]
MH370 was observed by Thai radar as it approached waypoint IGARI[3] and supplied relevant radar data to The Malaysian ICAO Annex 13 Safety Investigation Team for MH370.
References
- ↑ Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB), The Operational Search for MH370, 2017
- ↑ Thursday, March 20, 05:30 PM MYT +0800 Malaysia Airlines MH370 Flight Incident - MH370 Press Briefing by Hishammuddin Hussein, Minister of Defence and Acting Minister of Transport
- ↑ Safety Investigation Report MH370/01/2018 1.1.3 6) Bangkok Air Traffic Control Radar
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