Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 went missing on March 8, 2014, en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people on board. The official investigation concluded the plane most likely ended up at the bottom of the southern Indian Ocean. However, two extensive search missions found no wreckage, leading some experts to believe they may be looking in the wrong place.
Aviation expert Jeff Wise claimed in his 2015 book ‘The Plane That Wasn’t There’ there were actually two possible routes the plane went – north and south.
The official investigation came out their conclusion based on data collected by British satellite telecommunications company Inmarsat.
Inmarsat’s satellite 3F1 had been in contact with MH370 in its final hours and in seven ‘handshakes’ it recorded Burst Timing Offset (BTO) and Burst Frequency Offset (BFO) values.
BTO values are the measure of time taken for the transmission round trip and can be used to calculate the distance between the satellite and the aircraft.
MH370 may have landed in Kazakhstan (Image: GETTY)
MH370 search areas in southern Indian Ocean (Image: GETTY)
BFO values are a measure of the relative motion of the satellite and the aeroplane.
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