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a b c d e f g h "Signalling Unit Log for (9M-MRO) Flight MH370" (PDF). Inmarsat/Malaysia Department of Civil Aviation. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016 . Retrieved 29 June 2014. Mullen, Jethro; Shoichet, Catherine; Fantz, Ashley (6 August 2015). "MH370: More plane debris has washed up on Reunion[ sic], Malaysia says". CNN . Retrieved 8 August 2015. Incident 2014/1475 – search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 – area searched (4 April)" (PDF). Australian Maritime Safety Authority. 4 April 2014 . Retrieved 12 April 2015. Whitmore, Geoff (16 August 2019). "What Is The Safest Airplane To Fly?". Forbes . Retrieved 30 May 2020. Incident 2014/1475 search for Malaysian airlines flight MH370 planned search area 19 March 2014" (PDF). Australian Maritime Safety Authority. 19 March 2014. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 April 2015 . Retrieved 12 April 2015.a b c Budisatrijo, Alice; Westcott, Richard (11 March 2014). "Malaysia Airlines MH370: Stolen passports 'no terror link' ". BBC News . Retrieved 9 May 2014. a b "Mozambique debris 'almost certainly from MH370': Australia". Associated Press. 24 March 2016. Archived from the original on 25 March 2016 . Retrieved 24 March 2016. Brumfiel, Geoff (3 October 2017). "Final Report On MH370 Says Failure To Locate Airliner Is 'Almost Inconceivable' ". NPR . Retrieved 31 March 2023. In late February 2016, an object bearing a stencilled label of "NO STEP" was found off the coast of Mozambique; early photographic analysis suggested that it could have come from the aircraft's horizontal stabiliser or from the leading edges of the wings. [7] The part was found by Blaine Gibson [184] on a sandbank in the Bazaruto Archipelago off the coast of Vilanculos [185] in southern Mozambique, around 2,000km (1,200mi) southwest of where the flaperon had been found the previous July. [186] [187] The fragment was sent to Australia, where experts identified it as almost certainly a horizontal stabiliser panel from 9M-MRO. [188] [189]

The pilot in command was 53-year-old Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah from Penang. He joined Malaysia Airlines as a cadet pilot in 1981, and after training and receiving his commercial pilot's licence, he became a second officer with the airline in 1983. He was promoted to captain of Boeing 737-400 airliners in 1991, captain of Airbus A330-300 in 1996, and captain of Boeing 777-200 in 1998. He had been a type-rating instructor and a type-rating examiner since 2007. Zaharie had a total of 18,365 hours of flying experience. [20] :13 [38] [39]

Example of Long Divisions

In August 2015, France carried out an aerial search for possible marine debris around the island, covering an area of 120 by 40km (75 by 25mi) along the east coast of Réunion. [174] Foot patrols were also planned to search for debris along the beaches. [180] Malaysia asked authorities in neighbouring states to be on the alert for marine debris that might have come from an aircraft. [181] On 14August, it was announced that no debris that could be traced to Flight370 had been found at sea off Réunion, but that some items had been found on land. [182] Air and sea searches for debris ended on 17August. [183] Parts from the right stabiliser and right wing By October 2017, 20 pieces of debris believed to be from 9M-MRO had been recovered from beaches in the western Indian Ocean; [159] 18 of the items were "identified as being very likely or almost certain to originate from MH370", while the other two were "assessed as probably from the accident aircraft." [96] :106 On 16August 2017, the ATSB released two reports: the analysis of satellite imagery collected on 23March 2014, two weeks after MH370 disappeared, classifying 12 objects in the ocean as "probably man-made"; [160] and a drift study of the recovered objects by the CSIRO, identifying the crash area "with unprecedented precision and certainty" at 35°36′S 92°48′E / 35.6°S 92.8°E / -35.6; 92.8 ( CSIRO crash area), northeast of the main 120,000km 2 (46,000sqmi) underwater search zone. [161] [162] Flaperon Boeing 777 flaperon Location of flaperon discovery relative to Flight 370's flight path and the main search area Currents within the Indian Ocean Two parameters associated with these transmissions that were recorded in a log at the ground station were key to the investigation: MH370 Operational Search Update". JACC. 14 January 2015 . Retrieved 2 February 2015. Fugro Supporter is expected to arrive in the search area and commence search activities in late January. Fugro Supporter has been equipped with a Kongsberg HUGIN 4500 autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV). The AUV will be used to scan those portions of the search area that cannot be searched effectively by the equipment on the other search vessels.