Family members of those onboard the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 cry at a hotel in Putrajaya March 9, 2014
RARE MYSTERY
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappeared about an hour into a scheduled flight to Beijing, with theories ranging from a sudden stall, an incident on board which caused a complete electrical failure to some kind of freak accident.
The 11-year-old Boeing took off at 12.40 a.m. (1640 GMT Friday) from Kuala Lumpur International Airport and was last heard from at 1:30 a.m., according to the airline.
The plane last had contact with air traffic controllers 120 nautical miles off the east coast of the Malaysian town of Kota Bharu. Flight tracking website flightaware.com showed the plane flew northeast over Malaysia after take-off and climbed to an altitude of 35,000 feet.
A massive search operation was under way in the seas between Malaysia and the southern tip of Vietnam, centered on the area where the plane last made contact.
Pilots and aviation experts said an explosion on board appeared to be the likely cause of the disaster. The plane was at cruising altitude, the safest phase of flight, and likely would have been on autopilot.
"It was either an explosion, lightning strike or severe decompression," said a former Malaysia Airlines pilot. "The 777 can fly after a lightning strike and even severe decompression. But with an explosion, there is no chance. It is over."
An extreme, sudden loss of cabin pressure could have caused an explosive decompression and broken the plane apart, said John Goglia, a former board member of the National Transportation Safety Board. Such a decompression can be caused by corrosion or metal fatigue in the airframe.
ECHOES OF AIR FRANCE DISASTER
The disaster is most similar to the mysterious disappearance of Air France Flight 447, which killed all 228 people on board.
Investigations were unable to conclusively come up with a reason for the crash of the Airbus A330 until the plane's black boxes - its flight and voice data recorders - were recovered from the bottom of the ocean two years later.
That recovery is likely to help investigators of the Malaysia Airlines crash.
"Recovering wreckage in the ocean is always problematic, but the industry has learned a lot from the Air France crash," said Hayes, of Flightglobal Ascend.
Experts also stressed that the Air France flight provided a cautionary tale against premature speculation.
That accident was initially blamed by the airline on a thunderstorm. Later, investigators pinpointed ice that caused faulty speed sensor readings on the plane.
But data recovered after a two-year search led authorities to conclude that pilot error had also played a part - the crew's handling of the plane after the auto-pilot was disengaged put it into a stall from which it could not recover.
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Apa kita tahu dan tidak mengenai MH370
Menteri Pertahanan Malaysia dan juga Pemangku Menteri Pengangkutan, Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein bercakap kepada media pada sidang media di Lapangan Terbang Antarabangsa Kuala Lumpur berkenaan perkembangan terkini operasi mencari dan menyelamat pesawat MH370. – Gambar The Malaysian Insider oleh Najjua Zulkefli, 9 Mac, 2014.
Penerbangan MH370 masih lagi hilang lebih 24 jam dengan 239 penumpang dalam pesawat, pihak berkuasa memperluaskan usaha mencari dan menyelamat ke seluruh Laut Cina Selatan dan termasuklah Selat Melaka.
Pesawat Malaysian Airlines (MAS) Boeing 777-200ER berlepas pada 12.40 pagi pada Sabtu dari Lapangan Terbang Antarabangsa Kuala Lumpur (KLIA) tetapi gagal tiba di Beijing pada 6.30 pagi hari sama.
Di bawah adalah apa yang kita tahu mengenai MH370:
* Tiada isyarat kecemasan atau tanda cuaca buruk.* Penerbangan Malaysia Airlines terputus hubungan selepas berlepas dan lokasi terakhir yang diketahui adalah di luar Kota Baru.
* Penerbangan KL-Beijing membawa 227 penumpang dan 12 anak kapal.
* Dua penumpang dalam penerbangan menggunakan identiti palsu.
* Dua lagi penumpang mempunyai identiti yang tidak dapat disahkan.
* Juruterbang pesawat berpengalaman.
* Pesawat tersebut menjalani pemeriksaan 10 hari lalu.
* Pesawat tersebut akan kehabisan minyak sekitar jam 8 pagi pada Sabtu.
Apa yang kita tidak tahu mengenai MH370:
* Di mana pesawat tersebut hilang?
* Apa yang berlaku apabila pesawat tiba-tiba terputus hubungan dengan menara kawalan trafik udara?
* Mengapa transponder kecemasan tidak berfungsi?
* Adakah ia berada di perairan Malaysia atau di lokasi lain?
Berikut berita tidak disahkan yang boleh dikaitkan dengan MH370:
* Apakah kesan tumpahan minyak dan kepulan asap dikesan oleh tentera laut Vietnam?
* Perbualan dengan industri minyak berkata pekerja di pelantar minyak Talisman Energy sekitar Blok PM-3 CAA melihat sesuatu terhempas ke dalam laut.
* Adakah pasport yang dicuri dikaitkan dengan pengganas? – 9 Mac, 2014. - sumber
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