Mysterious power cut on board missing flight MH370
Australian investigators have found evidence of a mysterious power cut during the early part of the missing MH370 flight.
In the report by the Australian Transport Safety Bureau, crash investigators reveal that the missing Boeing 777’s satellite data unit tried to log on to a satellite, around an hour and a half after the flight left from Kuala Lumpur on March 8, reports the Telegraph.
This request, known as a ‘handshake’, was likely to have been caused by a power failure on board, the 55-page report says.
‘A log-on request in the middle of a flight is not common and can occur for only a few reasons,’ the report states.
‘These include a power interruption to the aircraft satellite data unit (SDU), a software failure, loss of critical systems providing input to the SDU or a loss of the link due to aircraft attitude.
‘An analysis was performed which determined that the characteristics and timing of the logon requests were best matched as resulting from power interruption to the SDU.’
Aviation safety expert David Gleave from Loughborough University says the power interruption could have been caused by someone in the cockpit trying to turn off the plane’s communications systems to avoid being picked up by radar.
‘It could be a deliberate act to switch off both engines for some time,’ he told the Telegraph.
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