Quote:Intrestingly when Malaysia Air had been asked for ACARS data, there has been no comment.

Originally an airline official said data was being reviewed but no response given since then.

 

Automatic Communications And Reporting System data sends coded signals to satellite or ground stations about aircraft performance.

ACARS data is what helped forensic analysts with the Air France crash.

Any anomaly detected by the algorithm is reported immediately.

 

This data could either be close held during the investigation or it ceased, which lends credibility to catastrophic in flight incident.

 

Any way it does not look like there will be a favorable outcome.

This is the information that is being discussed concerning pings from the aircraft hours later....to have the nexus of the SAR mission change almost 1000 miles to the east is unprecidented to say the least. There are scenarios that could have incapcitated the passengers and crew and the aircraft continue flying, either by itself until fuel exhaustion or under control of others.

 

This one is a head scratcher.

 

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