MH370 vanished on March 8, 2014 en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people on board. According to 2015 book ‘The Plane That Wasn’t There’, the air traffic controllers’ computers continued to display the aircraft symbol even though the plane’s ADS-B signal had “winked out” and it had disappeared from radar. MH370 had been flying towards IGARI, a waypoint that is far enough out over the ocean that it is sometimes out of range – a kind of “blind spot”.
The automatic tracking system often temporarily loses planes around IGARI for a few minutes ... Read even more
