Flight MH370 of the Malaysian Airlines was suspected to have stayed in the air for around four hours, US investigators said. The plane was said to have travelled longer past the time it should have reached Beijing. This was according to two people familiar with the matter who told WSJ. This could mean that the search operations would extend additional hundreds of miles given the suspected hours that the plane travelled.
As a part of a monitoring program and routine maintenance, the Boeing 777 passes real time data to the ground from its engines. This increased the possibility of having to stay in the air for a total of five hours based on the downloaded data from the plane’s engines, aviation investigators and national security authorities said.
The new development in the investigation has raised even more possibilities on what really happened aboard the Boeing 777
jetliner. The airplane lost contact with air traffic control radar an hour after it left Kuala Lumpur carrying 239 passengers towards Beijing.
Today marks day 6 of the search operations but sadly, it has not produced any results to where the plane is.
Additional report from the WSJ said that the pilot or someone else might have intentionally turned off the aircraft’s transponders to avoid radar detection.
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