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<h2>Telephone Calls and Flight MH370</h2>

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<li><h3>1 Malaysia Airlines to MH370 via Satcom</h3>
<p>Malaysia Airlines made two attempts to contact flight MH370 by phone:-</p>
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   <li>At [[Timeline/ANDS-NIO/0239:52 MYT|0239:52 MYT]] - unknown to Malaysia Airlines, MH370 had crossed peninsula Malaysia, flown northwest towards the Andaman Sea and may already have turned south. See Timeline article [[Timeline/ANDS-NIO#TelephoneCall|Andaman Sea to North Indian Ocean]].</li>
   <li>At [[Timeline/NIO-SIO/0713:58 MYT|0713:58 MYT]] - about 45 minutes after MH370 was due to land in Beijing.</li>
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<p>Each telephone call was routed through the Satcom system to the aircraft cockpit. Both events are recorded as 'unanswered Ground-to-Air telephony calls.</p>
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<p>Two Ground-to-Air Telephony Calls were placed to the cockpit from the MAS Airline Operations Centre at Airline Operational Communications (AOC) Q10 priority level at [[Timeline/Response/MAS/0239:52 MYT|1839]] and at [[Timeline/Response/MAS/0713:58 MYT|2313]] on 07 March 2014. Neither of the calls was answered.</p>
<p style="text-align:center"><u>Source</u>: <i>Safety Investigation Report MH370/01/2018</i> [[Safety Investigation Report 2018:2 Analysis/2.5/2.5.1|2.5.1 Summary of Key Observations of the SATCOM Ground Station Logs]]</p>
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<li><h3>2 First Officer Mobile Phone</h3>
<p>At 0152:27 MYT the mobile phone belonging to the First Officer made a (brief) connection with a phone tower at Bandar Baru Farlim Penang. This was investigated by attempting to reconstruct the flight path of MH370 using a King Air 350 aircraft but found that it was difficult to maintain call connectivity above 8,000 feet.</p>
<p>This event was only a connection - there is no evidence of an attempt to make a phone call.</p>
<p><u>Source</u>: <i>Safety Investigation Report MH370/01/2018</i> [[Safety Investigation Report 2018:1 Factual Information/1.1/1.1.5|1.1.5 Detection of Hand Phone Signal]].</p>
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<li><h3>3 Malaysia Airlines Calls to Crew Mobile Phones</h3>
<p>From about 3am, attempts were made to contact MH370 crew by calling their mobile phones<ref name="CallsToMobiles" />. The last attempt was made after 9am. None of the calls were answered.</p>
<p>It is now known that MH370 was headed south towards the southern Indian Ocean, beyond any mobile phone range.</p>
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<li><h3>4 Two-minute Phone Call (False News)</h3>
<p>A British tabloid alleged that the Captain of flight MH370 made a two-minute phone call just prior to take-off. This was dismissed by the Royal malaysia Police as 'mere speculation'.</p>
<p>The story is discussed in the article [[False News/Two-Minute Phone Call]].</p>
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<h3>Notes</h3>
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<ref name="CallsToMobiles">Calls to mobiles are sequenced in <i>MH370-RMP-Folder-Appendix</i> {{RefID:RMP-Appendix}}</ref>
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