Tooltips
MH370 Decoded: Tooltips
This website is sub-titled MH370 Decoded.
One way the complexity of flight MH370 is simplified or decoded is the use of Tooltips[1].
A Tooltip is some additional information which appears on the screen when the cursor or mouse pointer is placed over some text which is faintly underlined.
Tooltips have been created from the Glossary included in each official Report so that when reading an article which contains a quote from a Report, the meaning of a term is available in context, where it is needed.
Tooltips are so useful they have also been created to decode other information such as the Flight Plan as described below.
Glossary
A glossary has been compiled from several sources - see the article Glossary - which use terminology from the aviation industry; communications including SATCOM or satellite communications; radar and how MH370 was tracked by civilian and military radar; the underwater search for MH370 with terms like bathymetry; and more.
But this Glossary is only part of the full list of Tooltips.
Other Topics
Tooltips have been added to assist with many other topics including these:-
- Malay language words used, for example selamat pagi in the MH370 Pilot-ATC Radiotelephony Transcript.
- Unusual English language words, for example redacted used in the ACARS Traffic Log for MH370 (9M-MRO) because the log contained the name of someone and their privacy is respected.
- Words like ab-initio a term used in the context of pilot training. See PAL Aviation School.
- Multiple terms and abbreviations used in the ACARS traffic logs, for example KULPEK and more complex items to be decoded like 071627WMKKZBAA.
- The Flight Plan for MH370 (see below), and more.
Example - Tooltips and the Flight Plan
The following is a text version of the Filed Flight Plan for MH370.
Mouse over any faint underlined text to reveal the meaning.
KLA297 070444
FF WMKKZQZX WMKKZRZX
070441 WMKKYOYX
(FPL-MAS370-IS
-B772/H-SDFGHIJ3J5M1RWXY/LB1D1
-WMKK1635
-N0470F290 DCT PIBOS R208 IKUKO/M081F330 R208 IGARI M765
BITOD/N0480F330 L637 TSN/N0480F350 W1 BMT W12 PCA G221
BUNTA/N0480F370 A1 IKELA/N0480F370 P901 IDOSI/N0480F390 DCT CH
DCT BEKOL/K0900S1160 A461 YIN/K0890S1130 A461 VYK
-ZBAA0534 ZBTJ ZBSJ
-PBN/A1B1C1D1L1O1S2 DOF/140307 REG/9MMRO EET/WSJC0032 VVTS0042
ZJSA0210 VHHK0233 ZGZU0304 ZHWH0356 ZPE0450 SEL/QRC RMK/ACASII
EQUIPPED)
Source: Transcribed from the image in Figure 2.2A from the Safety Investigation Report MH370/01/2018 Section 2.2.3 Filed Flight Plan of MH370
Links
Some Tooltips contain a link to a related article which provides more information. For example, BTO and BFO.
Sources
Some Tooltips refer to the information source. It is not practical to provide that information for every item. The Glossary page lists the main sources of terms and definitions used within the Glosary.
Duplicates
Within the Glossary some terms appear more than once. This is because variations of the term may appear in text in different places.
For example, the word tooltip may also be capitalised like this Tooltip or 'plural' like this tooltips.
Unexpected results
Occasionally there are unexpected results with Tooltips providing 'help' for an item which matches the criteria but in the wrong context.
These events are not common and are corrected whenever noticed.
Notes
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This website has been created using a platform called MediaWiki. Tooltips are enabled with a MediaWiki extension called Lingo. See Extension:Lingo
Each abbreviation or term is paired with a definition. The on-screen definition is compliant with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines .