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It's 12.26 a. m.
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At Kuala Lumpur
International Airport.
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Saturday, March 8th.
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For air traffic control it's
another hot and humid night.
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On the tarmac, Malaysia airlines
flight 370 is nearing take off.
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Piloting the plane is 53 year
old Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah.
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More than 18,000 hours
flying experience.
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An unblemished flying record.
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A thirty year veteran
of the airline.
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Zaharie was an invisible pilot,
now all pilots in the airline
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Like to be invisible, meaning
bosses don’t know about them,
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Meaning they just go, do their
work well, pass all their exams.
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Inside the cockpit seated
to Captain Zaharie's
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right, is 27 year old
Fariq Abdul Hamid.
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Radioing air traffic control,
it's his first stint co-piloting
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a Boeing 777 aircraft, without
a check co-pilot supervising.
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It sounds quite normal.
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It tends to be very ready
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communications can
be quite relaxed.
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You know, there is a protocol,
but you know it can be
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quite relaxed particularly when
things are going normally.
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Around 2 hours
earlier, while
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the plane was being
prepared for flight
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227 passengers from 14
nations, including Australia,
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began checking in at
Kuala Lumpur airport.
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Two thirds are
Chinese nationals,
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all bound for Beijing.
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At 12:41 a. m.; MH370
is ready to fly.
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Flying conditions
are almost perfect.
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Minimal wind and cloud forecast
for the 6 hour flight.
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The 4,500km flight path would
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normally take MH
370 over Vietnam.
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Crossing the coast of
mainland China, just
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west of Hong Kong, and
then into Beijing.
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An easy trip for the Boeing
777 plane, which had
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passed its maintenance check
just 12 days earlier.
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The 777, how would you
describe its safety record?
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Its safety record has
been exemplary for,
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a modern jet airliner.
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The 777, you know, you cant
get lost even if you tried.
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It is that good.
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It's a very very good aeroplane.
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At 1:19 a. m., MH370 is
cruising at 35,000 feet,
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a Boeing 777's optimal altitude.
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As it approaches Vietnam's
airspace, exiting Malaysia's .
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Controllers direct the
pilots to make the routine
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switch to air traffic control
in Ho Chi Minh City.
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Seconds later a male voice
inside the cockpit responds.
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This is the last time anyone
will hear from MH370,
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a final goodbye from the
doomed midnight flight.
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Within minutes without notifying
anyone on the ground,
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MH370 veers radically off its
regular flight path to Beijing.
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The only reason for deviating
from an intended track,
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is either for weather, or
for some, you know, air
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traffic control requirement,
because of some problem.
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Neither of those?
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Neither of those are a factor.
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5 hours later, at 6:30
a. m., MH370 is due to
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land at Beijing
International Airport.
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But it is nowhere to be found.
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I mean it's without
precedent, how can,
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a modern jet airliner just..
pfft disappear.
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[music]
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At 7:24 a. m., Malaysia Airlines
release a statement on Facebook.
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Malaysia Airlines confirms
that flight MH370 has lost
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contact with Subang Air Traffic
Control at 2:40 a. m. today.
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The world is unaware that MH
370 is actually still flying.
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Oh yes, yes, yes, it was
just running out of fuel.
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I was just having 6
tonnes of fuel in tanks.
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Yes it was flying.
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As we turned on our televisions
that plane was still in the air?
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Chilling... when I got
the message on my phone,
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the aeroplane was still
airborne, it's chilling.
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Unaware of the fate of their
loved ones, distressed
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relatives begin to arrive
at Kuala Lumpur Airport
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Fuck you.
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[ambient noise]
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A nation starts praying for
the planes safe return.
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[greeting everyone]
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Over the following days,
government officials struggle
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under pressure with little
information to release.
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Nearly 300 different news
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agencies descend
on Kuala Lumpur,
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all desperate for answers.
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Then after a few days of flip
flop, and refusal to release
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critical information, people
are becoming more cynical.
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The governments press
conferences are
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quickly overrun, by a
furious media pack
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Soon the doors are
closed on the media,
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fuelling claims of
conspiracy and cover-up.
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You say it's a conspiracy.
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Conspiracy merely to
protect the people who
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have not done the job
they are supposed to do.
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And who hasn't done their job?
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I guess the people who are,
who are on duty that night.
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The airforce,
Malaysian Airlines,
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the Kuala Lumpur
Airport Authority,
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I mean it's a good number
of agencies involved.
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So how did MH370 and everyone
on board vanish without
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a trace, when so many eyes
were watching it that night.
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What sort of mystery is this?
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It's huge, it's huge,
it just doesn't
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These sort of events
just don’t happen.
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The mystery of flight 370,
begins just after 1:19 a. m.
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Around 90 seconds after
the final good night.
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This 90 seconds is very
key, this 90 seconds
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actually defines, the whole
of MH370's going missing.
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That 90 seconds.
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At 1:21 a. m., MH
370's transponder,
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is turned off or fails.
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Located on the centre
console of the flight
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deck the transponder is
the planes main mode
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of identification by
air traffic control,
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using civilian secondary
radar on the ground.
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It's actually a positive
response to the ground
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and it contains information
like, the aircraft
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height, speed, flight
number and its destination.
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Four Corners has
spoken to more than
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a dozen 777 pilots, all
of them agree unless
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there is the malfunction
the transponder
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should never be turned
of during flight.
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There is no reason I can think
of, operational reason,
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that the aircraft would have
that transponder turned off.
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There is no reason to do so.
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Could that be done accidentally?
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No.
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I do not know who switched
off the transponder,
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but certainly that
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diabolical act started with
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the switching off
of that transponder
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Around the same
time Four Corners
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understands someone
in the cockpit
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began interfering with the
in-flight entertainment system.
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And a second key data messaging
system also stops transmitting.
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The Aircraft
Communications Addressing
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and Reporting System, ACARS.
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It would give information about
the various pressures, and
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temperatures within the engine,
oil levels, speeds of rotation.
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ACARS records and transmits the
health of the plane during
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flight, and it's designed to
never be turned off in the air.
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If it's something that
somebody wished to do,
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as a positive step,
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then you would have to research
how it was going to be achieved.
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So you need to know what
your doing? - Exactly
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It just points out to one
thing, human interference.
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The question is, did
someone in the cockpit
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deliberately turn the
transponder and the ACARS off?
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Or were both systems
both disabled
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by a fire or
malfunction on-board?
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Do you believe that
this was human
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intervention, or
do you believe it's
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possible that the
communications systems
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were knocked out by say a fire?
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Yeah it could have
been, quite easily.
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So where would the fire
have been in order
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to strike out those
communications?
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The electronics bay,
which is right
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beneath where the pilots sit.
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If there was a fire
or an explosion on
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board could the plane
continue to fly?
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it's beyond the bounds
of probability.
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In my view.
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There is no mechanical
malfunction that
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enables an aircraft to
fly, but kills radio.
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And fly, is not just fly, this
is flying for the next 7 hours.
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With ACARS off what does
that actually mean,
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in that now the transponder
and ACARS is off.
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Your slowly shutting
off the methods of
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communication between the
aircraft and the ground.
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Only a few people
on board MH370
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had the skill and the knowledge
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to take over the plane and shut
down its communications systems,
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early on one person
in particular
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stood out, the captain.
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Captain Zaharie has the best
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opportunity and
certainly capability,
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opportunity meaning
that he has control
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over time and how
events can unfold.
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He is the most powerful
person on that aircraft?
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- Most powerful person on
the aeroplane, yes indeed.
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But could Captain Zaharie
be a rogue pilot on
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a suicide mission taking
238 people with him?
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These are the last
known recorded images
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of Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah.
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Seen here clearing security
with co-pilot Fariq Hamid,
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at Kuala Lumpur
International Airport
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moments before flying MH370.
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So who is Captain Zaharie?
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Hi everyone! This
is a Youtube video
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that I have made as a
community service.
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In this home video, uploaded
to Facebook in January
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2013, Zaharie explains how
to save on electricity.
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This video is to be
used to optimise
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your heat pump or
your compressor.
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Highly intelligent and
technically savvy,
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Captain Zaharie was also
obsessed with aviation.
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Joining Malaysia airlines
as a cadet in 1981.
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According to the companies
former chief pilot,
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Nick Huslan, Zaharie had
an impeccable record.
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What was his reputation
then as a pilot?
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He was methodical,
methodical he kept
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very good notes and
he was generous.
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[music]
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If tabloid media reports using
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unnamed sources are
to be believed.
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Captain Zaharie was
a man on the edge,
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weighed down by personal
problems, a failing
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marriage, in no stage
to fly that night.
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Captain Zaharie's family has
remained silent until now.
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For the first time tonight
they speak publicly
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in Panang with Zaharie's
brother in law, Aswad Khan.
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Agreeing to speak
to Four Corners on
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behalf of his sister
Fiza, Zaharie's wife.
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And how close were you two?
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As a friend yeah, and as a
brother-in-law, definitely.
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How often did Captain
Zaharie return to Panang?
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Every year.
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Why have you decided
to speak with us?
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Well because what I can see
is that a lot of people
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are saying a lot of things
about him which is untrue.
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It was reported that in the
24 hours leading up to
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flight MH370 Captain
Zaharie's wife had left him.
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Taking their children
with her to another house.
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According to Captain
Zaharie's brother-in-law
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the rumours are
completely false.
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Even I don’t believe
it, because she’s
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at home, well the
normal procedure for
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what they call it,
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when ever
the husband flies
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the wife will go to
another house where
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the younger son stays
otherwise she will
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be alone in that big house,
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that’s been practised since
they bought the house.
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That was their routine?
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Yeah their routine,
you can say that.
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A difficult question I need to
ask you, again personal life.
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All of these rumours need
to be discussed. - Okay.
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It was reported that Captain
Zaharie also had a girlfriend.
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That I do not know about.
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Even if I knew, I say why not?
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We are allowed to, as long as
you take good care of your wife.
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Even if you ask my
sister, she would she
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doesn't care, you can
marry another one.
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Why not we can marry
four, we are Muslim.
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A self-confessed
aviation geek, Zaharie
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built a flight
simulator in his home.
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Spending hours practising
emergency landings
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Inviting friends
over, to have a go.
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In terms of Captain
Zaharie time spent on
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the simulator, was
it a secret of his?
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The flight simulator is
definitely not a secret, of his.
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He was proud of it, and since he
installed it about a year ago,
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he has been proudly showing
it off in the Facebook.
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So there’s nothing
sinister about it.
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Many pilots have flight
simulators at home.
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For Zaharie it's
become the subject
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of intense media speculation.
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Claims that he deleted simulator
data, before flying MH370.
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But Aswad Khan says his
sister Fiza, Zaharie's wife
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told him that the flight
simulator broke in 2013.
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That simulator was dismantled
already, the things crashed.
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It doesn’t work, so he had
to reformat the drive.
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To be clear,
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Captain Zaharie's wife
has told you that he was
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not on that simulator this year,
except to try and re-install.
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He did not practise extreme
landings and take-offs?
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This year?
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I don’t think so, because the
simulator is not working.
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Captain Zaharie was also
politically minded,
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a strong supporter and distant
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relative of opposition
Anwar Ibrahim
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In what many believe
is a politically
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motivated trial on
Friday 7th March,
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Ibrahim was sentenced to 5 years
jail for the crime of sodomy.
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It was rumoured that
Zaharie was in court
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in Kuala Lumpur for the
verdict, just hours
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before he piloted MH
370, leading to claims
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he took the plane down
in political protest.
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A distressed activist,
a political fanatic.
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But his brother
in law Aswad Khan
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said Zaharie was not at court.
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Was Captain Zaharie at the
trial of Anwar Ibrahim?
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No, I asked my sister
personally, even, even my sister
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herself informed him on
what happened on that day.
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So the idea that
Captain Zaharie was
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so distressed, by
the ruling in this
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court case that he
took a plane on
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a suicide mission?
That is ridiculous?
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And making that
decision within around
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4 or 5 hours is
absolutely ridiculous.
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A prime suspect with
no apparent motive.
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To date there is no proof
Zaharie is responsible.
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But we can prove how MH370 was
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allowed to disappear
that morning.
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Starting on the ground, with air
traffic control at 1:20 a. m.
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One minute, MH370
blips regularly
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on civilian radar screens.
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The next, transponder
disabled, it's gone.
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When you can't see the target or
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the radar display
of the aircraft
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and label, disappear
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you would start to become
quite concerned immediately.
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That didn’t happen, at
the exact moment
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the transponder and the
ACARS stopped working,
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MH370 is flying through
a technically obscure
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grey zone, a vulnerable
hand over point between
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two airspace sectors,
Malaysia and Vietnam
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If I was going to take
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the aircraft over,
and wanted to make
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the aircraft disappear this
is exactly when I would do it.
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Did MH370 fly to outsmart
air traffic control?
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Yes.
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As MH370 reaches Vietnam
airspace, it's directed
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to switch over to air
traffic control in
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Ho Chi Minh City, standard
procedure for any
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plane following a
commercial flight path.
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Any pilot worth his salt, any
pilot anywhere in the world,
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when your hand it
over, you switch
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frequency, in the case of
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a 777 you probably
have that frequency
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already on the spare box.
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In Vietnam, officers on duty
wait for MH370 to check in,
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a grace period, of
reportedly up to 5 minutes.
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I tell you it's all
done in one swoop.
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Malaysian 370 good
night, over to
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Ho Chi Minh, click. Ho
Chi Minh, Malaysian
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370 good morning.
That's all it takes.
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Exactly that long.
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That did not happen.
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Ho Chi Minh Air Traffic
Control waits,
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and waits for MH370 to respond.
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How normal is it for the plane
simply to not check in?
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Unheard of, unless there
was a problem on board
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the aeroplane with the-
eh communications.
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If they aircraft, if
there was a problem with
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them not calling, the
aircraft not calling
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Vietnam, it should
have they should have
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gone straight back
to Kuala Lumpur.
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Instead, almost 20 minutes pass.
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At 1:38 a. m.,
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Ho Chi Minh finally calls
air traffic control in
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Kuala Lumpur - they've failed
to make contact with MH370.
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Twenty minutes?
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Yeah well it's,
it's way too long.
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It's way too long.
You would think
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that would have happened in
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the first three or four
minutes, yeah.
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The delay is soon compounded
by misinformation
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coming out of Malaysia
Airlines Operations Centre.
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At around 2:00 a. m., the
airline makes the first
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of three stunning
communication errors.
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According to this timeline
of events released by
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the Malaysian Government,
an airline employee
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told the nearby air
traffic control centre
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that the aircraft was
in Cambodian airspace.
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And again at 2:15 a. m.
- MH370 was flying
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in Cambodian airspace.
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Twenty minutes later, at
2:35 a. m., a third time.
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With Malaysia
Airlines Operations
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even giving coordinates.
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Is it not concerning
that at 2 a. m.,
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the authorities know that
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370 is in an airspace and an
area that it shouldn't be?
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00:24:11,330 --> 00:24:13,210
Absolutely. Absolutely.
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And it's more surprising
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that the control
authorities cannot see
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00:24:18,520 --> 00:24:24,180
the aircraft, but Malaysian
Airlines are supposedly
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00:24:24,260 --> 00:24:26,550
is reporting the position
of that aircraft.
370
00:24:26,850 --> 00:24:28,530
What's even more surprising:
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Malaysia Airlines not
only provided misleading
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coordinates, the
airline provided
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them before even
trying to call MH370.
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According to information we've
obtained, Malaysia Airlines
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Operations Centre
made its first attempt
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00:24:43,650 --> 00:24:48,890
to call MH370 at 2:39 a. m.
That's four minutes after
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providing those misleading
coordinates at 2:35 a. m.
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Despite the gravity
of the situation,
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the airline made just
one attempt to call
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MH370 by satellite
phone in those crucial
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hours before it was due to land.
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Based on the Government's
timetable, air traffic
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00:25:09,670 --> 00:25:12,990
control in both Kuala
Lumpur and Ho Chi Minh
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continued to operate
under Malaysia Airlines'
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confusing data placing MH370
in Cambodian airspace
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00:25:20,200 --> 00:25:24,500
until 3.30 a. m., when a
correction was made.
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Malaysia Airlines
Operations Centre informed
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Kuala Lumpur Air Traffic
Control Centre that the flight
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00:25:30,370 --> 00:25:32,930
tracker information was
based on flight projection
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00:25:33,020 --> 00:25:35,660
and not reliable for
aircraft positioning.
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00:25:37,340 --> 00:25:41,180
Unbelievably, another two
hours would pass before
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Kuala Lumpur activated
Air Search and Rescue.
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00:25:44,910 --> 00:25:47,070
So they wait until 5:30?
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That seems very long.
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There'd be other people that
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00:25:50,260 --> 00:25:54,450
should have been informed
and those people, I would
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00:25:54,530 --> 00:25:58,730
have expected, to have
started the a search and
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00:25:58,810 --> 00:26:01,580
rescue co-ordination
centre before that time.
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00:26:03,970 --> 00:26:06,330
With maximum
confusion, delay and
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00:26:06,420 --> 00:26:08,300
inaction on the ground, in
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00:26:08,400 --> 00:26:11,020
the sky, whoever's in
control of MH370
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00:26:11,090 --> 00:26:13,680
has bought invaluable time.
403
00:26:14,380 --> 00:26:18,250
At around 1:30 a. m., invisible
in the air, the plane
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00:26:18,330 --> 00:26:22,250
dramatically changes course,
taking a wide left turn.
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00:26:23,620 --> 00:26:25,410
Would passengers
have felt anything?
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00:26:25,490 --> 00:26:27,520
Not necessarily.
It's night-time,
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00:26:27,600 --> 00:26:29,820
they're tired, probably
falling asleep.
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00:26:32,370 --> 00:26:35,050
It's not known who's
flying the plane.
409
00:26:35,330 --> 00:26:37,070
As it glides across
the Malaysian
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00:26:37,160 --> 00:26:39,020
peninsular, transponder off,
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00:26:39,280 --> 00:26:42,040
now an unauthorised
unidentified object,
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MH370 isn't visible on
civilian secondary radar, but
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00:26:46,620 --> 00:26:49,430
it can be seen by the
military's primary radar.
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00:26:49,860 --> 00:26:52,000
And it's spotted,
then dismissed,
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00:26:52,080 --> 00:26:54,700
by military radar
officers below.
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00:26:55,120 --> 00:26:57,810
So if there's not very
many things flying around
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00:26:57,890 --> 00:27:00,490
and they've all got
transponder codes on and, all
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00:27:00,580 --> 00:27:02,430
of a sudden, one guy show
up on your screen who
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00:27:02,500 --> 00:27:04,590
doesn't have a transponder
code, that should have
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00:27:04,670 --> 00:27:06,960
been an indication that
something, right off
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00:27:07,030 --> 00:27:09,510
the bat, was amiss, that
something needed to be, ah, you
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00:27:09,600 --> 00:27:12,720
know, something was worthy of
maybe making a phone call,
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00:27:12,800 --> 00:27:15,760
investigating, seeing
what was going on.
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00:27:18,400 --> 00:27:20,960
But it appears nothing was done.
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00:27:21,300 --> 00:27:25,110
This is the route MH370 is
believed to have taken.
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Based on its likely altitude
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and speed, it took
MH370 around 15
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minutes to fly across
the peninsular.
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00:27:33,290 --> 00:27:35,280
During that time, it was well
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00:27:35,360 --> 00:27:37,350
within at least
two of Malaysia's
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00:27:37,430 --> 00:27:41,630
military radar zones - the
last, at Butterworth, Penang.
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00:27:42,950 --> 00:27:45,990
On that clear night, with
very little air traffic
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00:27:46,070 --> 00:27:49,950
and close to empty
skies, MH370 flew almost
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00:27:50,030 --> 00:27:52,670
directly over the top
of Malaysia's military
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00:27:52,750 --> 00:27:55,730
radar station located on
the island of Penang.
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00:27:56,070 --> 00:27:57,860
Four Corners understands
that a team
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00:27:57,940 --> 00:28:00,480
of up to five officers
could or should
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00:28:00,560 --> 00:28:03,110
have been on duty
at the nearby radar
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00:28:03,190 --> 00:28:05,920
operations centre at
Butterworth airbase.
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00:28:06,170 --> 00:28:09,850
Their job? To man the military
radar screens, looking
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00:28:09,930 --> 00:28:13,140
for unidentified aircraft
entering Malaysia's airspace.
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00:28:14,200 --> 00:28:16,960
What should the military
have done that night?
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00:28:17,300 --> 00:28:21,220
The Air Force will be
alerted and will have
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00:28:21,290 --> 00:28:25,490
to then be flown to
that area to either,
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00:28:25,580 --> 00:28:28,230
you know, normally to
guide the plane to
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00:28:28,310 --> 00:28:31,470
land or to leave the
Malaysian airspace.
447
00:28:31,550 --> 00:28:32,860
They're standard operating
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00:28:32,940 --> 00:28:35,050
procedure and this
was never done.
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00:28:35,460 --> 00:28:37,580
The military completely breached
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the standing operating
procedures?
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The former First Admiral of
the Royal Malaysian Navy, now
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00:28:45,320 --> 00:28:47,230
member of the People's
Justice Party,
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00:28:47,310 --> 00:28:49,930
Imran Abdul Hamid, agrees.
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00:28:50,230 --> 00:28:52,790
Is it inexcusable for the
RMAF Chief to not have
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00:28:52,870 --> 00:28:55,090
tracked down this plane and
chased it in real time?
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00:28:55,870 --> 00:28:59,340
Definitely, if it is,
if they knew
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00:28:59,430 --> 00:29:01,710
the aircraft is passing
through our country,
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00:29:01,850 --> 00:29:05,100
definitely they must react.
They should
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00:29:05,180 --> 00:29:06,960
be responsible for
what they are doing.
460
00:29:09,260 --> 00:29:13,780
MH370 could have been blipping
on military radar screens
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00:29:13,860 --> 00:29:17,660
as an unidentified object
for up to 40 minutes.
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00:29:17,750 --> 00:29:20,910
Until around 2.25 a. m.
463
00:29:21,530 --> 00:29:26,930
Yeah, I mean it's a major
scandal here, because this is of
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00:29:27,010 --> 00:29:33,170
course amounting to a major
threat to national security.
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00:29:51,770 --> 00:29:53,280
But clearly I think on the issue
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00:29:53,360 --> 00:29:57,020
of the radar,
there's no defence.
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00:29:57,600 --> 00:30:00,910
Both the Minister of
Defence and Minister of
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00:30:01,000 --> 00:30:04,180
transport have just
completely ignored this.
469
00:30:05,880 --> 00:30:08,010
[applause]
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00:30:09,920 --> 00:30:13,080
Forty one days since
MH370 disappeared,
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00:30:13,340 --> 00:30:16,100
at a Defence Expo
in Kuala Lumpur,
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00:30:16,220 --> 00:30:19,620
we asked the Minister to confirm
reports that the Department of
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00:30:19,710 --> 00:30:21,800
Civil Aviation
rang the military,
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00:30:21,880 --> 00:30:24,950
reporting they'd
lost MH370, asking
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00:30:25,030 --> 00:30:26,860
military officers
on duty to look
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00:30:26,940 --> 00:30:29,150
for the plane early
that morning.
477
00:30:29,770 --> 00:30:32,100
Minister Hishammudin,
ABC Television,
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00:30:32,180 --> 00:30:35,220
Australia. Did civil
aviation contact
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00:30:35,300 --> 00:30:37,020
the military as
has been reported
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00:30:37,100 --> 00:30:39,890
in the early hours
of the morning?
481
00:30:40,210 --> 00:30:41,040
Sorry?
482
00:30:41,140 --> 00:30:45,620
Did civil aviation contact the
military in the early hours
483
00:30:45,700 --> 00:30:48,430
the flight disappeared, as has
been reported by Reuters?
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00:30:48,510 --> 00:30:49,630
When?
485
00:30:49,830 --> 00:30:51,640
Contacted on the morning
of the 8th would
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00:30:51,720 --> 00:30:53,090
have been around
2 a. m. it's reported.
487
00:30:53,240 --> 00:30:55,450
Oh, no, no I am
not going back...
488
00:30:55,760 --> 00:30:57,050
Well the record hasn't been
489
00:30:57,130 --> 00:30:58,520
corrected and the
question still.
490
00:30:58,600 --> 00:31:00,000
Well it will be corrected.
491
00:31:00,360 --> 00:31:01,830
Well can you correct
it today please?
492
00:31:01,940 --> 00:31:05,500
No. Let it be corrected
by all those involved.
493
00:31:08,310 --> 00:31:11,910
One week later, at the
Ministry of Defence, Minister
494
00:31:11,990 --> 00:31:15,030
Hishammuddin agreed to an
interview with Four Corners.
495
00:31:15,110 --> 00:31:19,390
To answer questions about what
the military did and didn't do.
496
00:31:19,510 --> 00:31:21,750
For the first time,
confirming that civil
497
00:31:21,830 --> 00:31:24,660
aviation did ring the
military that morning.
498
00:31:25,670 --> 00:31:27,670
Did DCA contact the military?
499
00:31:27,750 --> 00:31:28,590
Yes they did.
500
00:31:28,670 --> 00:31:29,490
What time?
501
00:31:29,570 --> 00:31:31,930
You have to ask the DCA
and it will come out,
502
00:31:32,010 --> 00:31:34,610
the details, I think this, the
dates, because I do not want
503
00:31:34,690 --> 00:31:37,770
to be trapped by, from my
experience in the last few
504
00:31:37,850 --> 00:31:41,730
weeks, by dates, by
numbers, by names, by rank.
505
00:31:43,230 --> 00:31:46,410
Even though civil aviation
had rung the military,
506
00:31:46,490 --> 00:31:50,200
possibly as early as 2 a. m.-
alerting officers on duty
507
00:31:50,280 --> 00:31:53,760
to look out for a lost,
unidentified commercial plane,
508
00:31:53,840 --> 00:31:57,930
the military allowed MH370
to glide out to sea.
509
00:31:58,840 --> 00:32:01,040
Minister Hishammuddin
told Four Corners
510
00:32:01,120 --> 00:32:03,640
that MH370 was tracked
by the military
511
00:32:03,720 --> 00:32:07,310
in real time, but
inexplicably, dismissed
512
00:32:07,390 --> 00:32:09,960
as not hostile by the
officer on duty.
513
00:32:10,500 --> 00:32:13,180
The military also
decided not to send
514
00:32:13,260 --> 00:32:15,460
up one of its planes
to investigate.
515
00:32:15,990 --> 00:32:18,490
But why not send the
jets up if you, you have
516
00:32:18,570 --> 00:32:20,630
conceded earlier that you
knew very early in
517
00:32:20,710 --> 00:32:23,050
the morning the plane was
missing, there was four
518
00:32:23,130 --> 00:32:25,290
and a half hours time
in which to respond.
519
00:32:25,370 --> 00:32:27,270
It was not hostile; it
was commercial; it was
520
00:32:27,350 --> 00:32:29,660
from our airspace; we're
not at war with anybody.
521
00:32:31,420 --> 00:32:33,060
Even if we sent them
up, are you going to
522
00:32:33,150 --> 00:32:34,700
say that we're going
to shoot it down?
523
00:32:37,010 --> 00:32:38,210
Well you said that, not me.
524
00:32:38,290 --> 00:32:39,140
No, I'm asking you.
525
00:32:40,300 --> 00:32:41,560
I could not possibly
answer that.
526
00:32:41,640 --> 00:32:43,590
If you're not going
to shoot it down,
527
00:32:43,680 --> 00:32:45,060
what's the point
of sending it up?
528
00:32:45,400 --> 00:32:46,590
To see where it's going.
529
00:32:46,940 --> 00:32:48,800
Well to see where it
going, you need
530
00:32:48,880 --> 00:32:50,820
a fighter for that?
If you're talking
531
00:32:50,900 --> 00:32:54,430
about military
procedures, and if
532
00:32:54,510 --> 00:32:55,820
I did shoot it
down, you'd be
533
00:32:55,900 --> 00:32:58,710
the first to say, how
can you shoot down
534
00:32:58,790 --> 00:33:01,750
a commercial airline
with 14
535
00:33:01,830 --> 00:33:05,310
nationals, half of
them Chinese, I'd
536
00:33:05,390 --> 00:33:07,000
be in a worse position probably.
537
00:33:07,400 --> 00:33:09,290
Why shoot it down though
if it's not hostile?
538
00:33:09,370 --> 00:33:10,430
Well the Americans would.
539
00:33:13,660 --> 00:33:16,900
If the military didn't dismiss
the plane as irrelevant,
540
00:33:17,240 --> 00:33:20,490
if the officers on duty
took action, the Government
541
00:33:20,570 --> 00:33:23,770
would have avoided another
costly mistake: spending
542
00:33:23,880 --> 00:33:27,640
a week searching the wrong
area: the South China Sea.
543
00:33:28,330 --> 00:33:33,660
The DCA with all the
assisting agencies,
544
00:33:33,740 --> 00:33:38,460
have conducted a thorough rescue
545
00:33:38,540 --> 00:33:41,880
and search operations
over a very
546
00:33:41,970 --> 00:33:45,000
wide area in the
South China Sea.
547
00:33:47,060 --> 00:33:49,180
It would take a
team of determined
548
00:33:49,270 --> 00:33:51,750
satellite engineers
across the globe
549
00:33:51,830 --> 00:33:53,940
for the Malaysian
Government to realise
550
00:33:54,020 --> 00:33:56,190
it was looking in
the wrong place.
551
00:34:00,020 --> 00:34:03,170
The breakthrough came on the
other side of the world, here
552
00:34:03,250 --> 00:34:06,890
in London, where a small group
of satellite engineers began
553
00:34:06,970 --> 00:34:10,370
to painstakingly analyse the
only data available from
554
00:34:10,450 --> 00:34:15,290
MH370 after its communications
systems had been disabled.
555
00:34:15,510 --> 00:34:18,110
They didn't have much
to go on: a sequence
556
00:34:18,190 --> 00:34:21,000
of 14 numbers,
signals sent between
557
00:34:21,080 --> 00:34:23,610
the plane and a satellite
hovering around
558
00:34:23,690 --> 00:34:26,450
35,000 kilometres
in the sky above.
559
00:34:26,830 --> 00:34:30,110
The data pointed to one
crucial thing:
560
00:34:30,200 --> 00:34:33,410
the plane had continued
to fly until 8.19 a. m.
561
00:34:33,700 --> 00:34:37,430
It didn't crash into the South
China Sea as first thought.
562
00:34:37,880 --> 00:34:41,520
I mean this is basic
physics that was used.
563
00:34:41,600 --> 00:34:44,360
Ah, what we did is used
the data available
564
00:34:44,440 --> 00:34:46,670
in a different way.
We combined the small
565
00:34:46,750 --> 00:34:48,880
bits of information
in a different way.
566
00:34:50,630 --> 00:34:54,600
That information came from a
ground station used by satellite
567
00:34:54,680 --> 00:34:58,830
technology company Inmarsat
on the outskirts of Perth.
568
00:34:59,190 --> 00:35:01,040
The ground station
had been logging
569
00:35:01,120 --> 00:35:04,320
data on MH370's
movements, a series
570
00:35:04,400 --> 00:35:07,030
of pings after the
ACARS communications
571
00:35:07,110 --> 00:35:09,150
system on board stopped working.
572
00:35:09,590 --> 00:35:11,620
And as I matter of
procedure they immediately
573
00:35:11,700 --> 00:35:14,650
picked up the logs
for that plane.
574
00:35:16,890 --> 00:35:18,810
The logs showed
that, although
575
00:35:18,900 --> 00:35:21,380
the ACARS had been
disabled, MH370's
576
00:35:21,450 --> 00:35:23,790
satellite communications
terminal,
577
00:35:23,870 --> 00:35:26,040
or SATCOM, was still operating.
578
00:35:26,460 --> 00:35:29,500
As it continued to
fly, every hour,
579
00:35:29,580 --> 00:35:31,480
the SATCOM was trying
to communicate with
580
00:35:31,560 --> 00:35:34,390
Inmarsat's satellite,
the F3, hovering
581
00:35:34,470 --> 00:35:37,000
in the sky above
the Indian Ocean.
582
00:35:38,140 --> 00:35:41,380
What happens is
that our satellite
583
00:35:41,460 --> 00:35:43,780
comm, our SATCOM
terminal, will at
584
00:35:43,860 --> 00:35:46,720
regular intervals,
we will have
585
00:35:46,800 --> 00:35:48,790
a handshake exchange
with the teleport.
586
00:35:49,390 --> 00:35:53,030
You could call it, the technical
term is a sort of 'keep alive',
587
00:35:53,110 --> 00:35:56,710
ah just checking that the
timing is correct between
588
00:35:56,790 --> 00:36:00,260
the two and that the channels,
we have a number of
589
00:36:00,340 --> 00:36:04,090
channels available, they are
available for use if needed.
590
00:36:06,010 --> 00:36:09,690
Over 48 hours, Inmarsat's
engineering team
591
00:36:09,770 --> 00:36:12,530
crunched the data,
seven timing numbers
592
00:36:12,610 --> 00:36:15,290
and seven frequency
numbers, in the hope
593
00:36:15,370 --> 00:36:18,090
of narrowing down the
right search area.
594
00:36:18,860 --> 00:36:20,330
How are things going?
595
00:36:20,540 --> 00:36:22,500
Ah, I think we are making
good progress; you
596
00:36:22,580 --> 00:36:25,050
can see the seven arcs
that we have after
597
00:36:25,130 --> 00:36:27,290
the loss of radar contact,
and you can see them
598
00:36:27,370 --> 00:36:30,490
extending down into the
Southern Indian Ocean.
599
00:36:30,780 --> 00:36:35,340
It was a painstaking
period of detailed
600
00:36:35,430 --> 00:36:37,920
analysis and checking
and validation.
601
00:36:39,540 --> 00:36:42,340
We had to be sure that we
understood the data we had.
602
00:36:44,540 --> 00:36:47,620
Inmarsat's data
showed that MH370
603
00:36:47,700 --> 00:36:50,740
made seven handshakes
with Satellite 3,
604
00:36:50,830 --> 00:36:52,850
indicating that the
plane continued
605
00:36:52,880 --> 00:36:54,290
to fly into the morning.
606
00:36:54,370 --> 00:36:56,500
Longer than first
thought and well
607
00:36:56,590 --> 00:36:58,630
away from the South China Sea.
608
00:36:58,900 --> 00:37:02,590
The last, a partial
handshake, at 8:19 a. m.
609
00:37:03,480 --> 00:37:08,110
Does that prove that MH370
was flying until 8.19 a. m.?
610
00:37:08,730 --> 00:37:12,770
It proves, just it
proves that the SATCOM
611
00:37:12,850 --> 00:37:15,410
terminal was working
until 0019 or 8.19
612
00:37:15,490 --> 00:37:18,450
as you put it; it
was still moving ah
613
00:37:18,530 --> 00:37:21,770
between 0011 and 0019.
You can deduce that.
614
00:37:22,420 --> 00:37:25,380
And there was nothing further?
No data further from 8.19?
615
00:37:25,460 --> 00:37:27,520
From that point onwards, no.
There was a attempt at
616
00:37:27,600 --> 00:37:31,720
a handshake at 0115, I
believe, but that failed.
617
00:37:33,750 --> 00:37:36,690
72 hours after MH370 was
618
00:37:36,770 --> 00:37:39,630
lost on Tuesday the
11th of March,
619
00:37:39,710 --> 00:37:41,500
Inmarsat privately
handed the data
620
00:37:41,580 --> 00:37:44,170
over to its distributor,
which in turn
621
00:37:44,250 --> 00:37:46,090
gave it to Malaysia
- showing that
622
00:37:46,170 --> 00:37:49,200
MH370 had continued
to fly either
623
00:37:49,280 --> 00:37:52,210
north or south for
several hours after
624
00:37:52,290 --> 00:37:54,100
it lost contact with the ground.
625
00:37:55,590 --> 00:37:59,190
Despite the data, two
days later, on Thursday,
626
00:37:59,270 --> 00:38:01,520
Minister Hishammuddin
publicly dismissed
627
00:38:01,600 --> 00:38:04,960
the possibility that
MH370 continued to fly
628
00:38:05,040 --> 00:38:07,440
after it lost contact
with the ground.
629
00:38:07,980 --> 00:38:10,020
Before I take any
questions, ladies and
630
00:38:10,100 --> 00:38:12,220
gentleman, I would
like to clear up a few
631
00:38:12,300 --> 00:38:15,580
issues. Firstly being
on the engine data.
632
00:38:16,380 --> 00:38:18,110
I would like to refer
to news reports
633
00:38:18,200 --> 00:38:21,060
suggesting that the
aircraft may have continued
634
00:38:21,140 --> 00:38:24,400
flying for some time
after last contact.
635
00:38:24,670 --> 00:38:26,120
As Malaysia Airlines
will confirm
636
00:38:26,200 --> 00:38:29,590
shortly, those reports
are inaccurate.
637
00:38:31,800 --> 00:38:36,320
At best, a communication
breakdown. At worst Inmarsat's
638
00:38:36,400 --> 00:38:40,480
data may have been ignored for
several days by Malaysia.
639
00:38:40,780 --> 00:38:43,910
Remarkably, another two
days would pass before
640
00:38:43,990 --> 00:38:47,510
the Government abandoned its
search in the South China Sea.
641
00:38:48,690 --> 00:38:52,650
It took Malaysia several days
to take Inmarsat's data on-board
642
00:38:52,730 --> 00:38:55,850
and shift the search area.
Was that a reasonable delay?
643
00:38:57,570 --> 00:38:59,720
It's difficult to say, Carol.
It's really
644
00:38:59,800 --> 00:39:02,760
difficult to say.
We have, throughout
645
00:39:02,840 --> 00:39:08,270
this process, learned
that in events of
646
00:39:08,350 --> 00:39:10,080
this magnitude, everybody
has an opinion.
647
00:39:11,020 --> 00:39:14,490
The Minister told Four
Corners Inmarsat's data had
648
00:39:14,570 --> 00:39:17,130
to be verified before the
Government could act.
649
00:39:17,780 --> 00:39:20,420
And only when we had
confirmation, corroboration,
650
00:39:20,500 --> 00:39:23,500
verification that the
commercial flight that was
651
00:39:23,580 --> 00:39:27,020
detected by the military
radar was the MH370, then
652
00:39:27,100 --> 00:39:29,640
we stopped our search
in the South China Sea.
653
00:39:29,930 --> 00:39:33,930
That was after searching
on all sorts of leads
654
00:39:34,010 --> 00:39:39,490
that were given: fireballs
in the sky, oil slicks,
655
00:39:39,570 --> 00:39:43,870
life rafts, lifeboats,
even a Chinese
656
00:39:43,950 --> 00:39:47,530
satellite images in
the South China Sea.
657
00:39:47,610 --> 00:39:50,190
Absolutely, there was a lot
to deal with at that stage so
658
00:39:50,270 --> 00:39:55,650
is it, is it a reasonable delay
to, to need three days.
659
00:39:55,990 --> 00:39:57,380
Was it three days?
660
00:39:57,460 --> 00:39:59,910
I think, ah, I think that
it's, ah, wrong to, ah,
661
00:39:59,990 --> 00:40:03,310
just point out and throw out
a period of three days.
662
00:40:06,090 --> 00:40:11,210
Two weeks after MH370 was
lost, on the 24th of March,
663
00:40:11,290 --> 00:40:13,810
Malaysia's Prime Minister
publicly acknowledged
664
00:40:13,890 --> 00:40:18,250
Inmarsat's additional data
showing MH370 is likely
665
00:40:18,330 --> 00:40:21,130
to have ended in the
southern Indian ocean.
666
00:40:21,470 --> 00:40:27,250
It is therefore with
deep sadness and
667
00:40:27,340 --> 00:40:30,020
regret that I must inform you,
668
00:40:30,710 --> 00:40:39,770
that according to this
new data, flight MH370
669
00:40:41,110 --> 00:40:46,670
ended in the southern
Indian Ocean.
670
00:40:56,400 --> 00:40:58,460
For the families
of those on board,
671
00:40:58,540 --> 00:41:01,070
agony quickly turned to anger.
672
00:41:08,420 --> 00:41:13,060
We want they give us the
truth, that's what we want.
673
00:41:14,480 --> 00:41:17,160
Eight weeks on, out
in the southern Indian
674
00:41:17,240 --> 00:41:20,560
Ocean, where MH370 is
believed to have ended
675
00:41:20,640 --> 00:41:23,090
around 2,000 kilometres
off the coast of
676
00:41:23,170 --> 00:41:26,860
Western Australia, no
wreckage has been found.
677
00:41:27,690 --> 00:41:30,290
The battery on the
black box has run out.
678
00:41:30,370 --> 00:41:32,930
There are no more
signals to chase.
679
00:41:33,560 --> 00:41:38,120
Despite the cost, the search
goes on - led by Australia.
680
00:41:39,180 --> 00:41:42,740
We haven't found anything.
The search continues in the
681
00:41:42,830 --> 00:41:46,480
adjacent areas and
hopefully we'll
682
00:41:46,550 --> 00:41:49,540
find something, but, I would
683
00:41:49,620 --> 00:41:55,130
say that, over the next,
eight to 12 months we will
684
00:41:55,210 --> 00:41:59,410
find the aircraft. Ah, we'll
find its final resting place.
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