MH370 report reveals 17-minute delay in querying missing plane


MH370 report reveals 17-minute delay in querying missing plane
Air traffic controllers took four hours to launch search and rescueoperation, according to files released by Malaysian government
Tania Branigan in Beijing and Gwyn Topham, transport correspondent




Hishamuddin Hussein, Malaysia's acting transport minister. Photograph: Samsul Said/Reuters

It took 17 minutes for air traffic controllers to realise that Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 had disappeared from their screens - and four hours to launch a rescue operation, according to documents issued on Thursday night by the Malaysian government.

The report, which was released with the plane's cargo manifest, seating plan, and audio recordings of conversations between the pilots and air traffic controllers, also called on the International Civil Aviation Organisation to consider real-time tracking of passenger airplanes.

The timing of the plane's disappearance was one of the details that first aroused suspicions that it might have been done deliberately: it happened at the boundary of air traffic control zones, two minutes after authorities in Kuala Lumpur told the pilots they should next contact Vietnamese officials. They never did so - prompting workers in Ho Chi Minh city to raise the alarm. Kuala Lumpur has been widely criticised for its handling of the plane's disappearance.


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