Stalking MH370

Jonathan Langdale
Langdale Blog
Published in
2 min readMay 28, 2014

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Let me set the stage.

You have a plane missing as of 17:22 and it’s now 18:40, over an hour later. After much time wasting, you’ve decided to finally trip the alert and emergency response. We don’t have a clue, supposedly, where the plane with 230 people on it is. We don’t know if it’s been hijacked, or what.

So what do you do? You attempt to call the plane via a voice call, supposedly. Okay. So you call the plane… Nobody answers. You let the phone ring for one minute. The call ends.

What do you do next? Do you stop trying to call the plane for several hours? or do you keep calling the plane on the hopes someone (who doesn’t know how to make calls) will answer?

For what reason would you just stop trying to call after only a single minute of “ringing?” Because you’re not aware of the continued signals and data being exchanged with the plane & you think the plane has crashed?

We now know that the plane was flying long after 18:40. Their next call to the plane is at 23:11, nearly 5 hours later. Does this mean that they didn’t know that the plane was still flying until 5 hours later?

Then the same question applies. Why, at 23:11, do you only let the phone ring for one minute? For what reason were there two “missed calls,” each almost precisely one minute in length, yet 5 hours apart?

Could these be data transfers?

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