The last words from one of the two pilots in the cockpit of the missingMalaysian Airlines (MAS) fight MH370 were “Goodnight Malaysian threeseven zero.”
The information was revealed by the Department of Civil Aviation of Malaysia on March 31.
This message is different from the one released when the hunt for the missing jet began: “All right, goodnight”.
According to the department, the last conversation between the airtraffic controller and the cockpit of the missing plane was at 1:19 a.mon March 8 (local time).
It said the authoritieswill continue investigations to determine whether those last words fromthe cockpit were spoken by the pilot or co-pilot.
Earlier, MAS Managing Director Ahmad Jauhari Yahya said initialinvestigations showed that the voice was from the co-pilot Fariq AbdulHamid.
The full transcript of the conversation willbe announced at an upcoming meeting with relatives of passengers onboard flight MH370, said the department.
April 1marks the 23rd day of the search for the missing aircraft with 239people aboard, which lost radar contact with air controllers on earlyMarch 8 en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. However, no traces of thejetliner have been found so far.
At present, forcesfrom seven countries are joining the operation on an area of 120,000sq.km on the Indian Ocean, about 1,850 km west of the Australian city ofPerth .
According to Malaysian authorities, theplane was diverted by someone on board and satellite data showed thatit ended in the south Indian Ocean, making it highly unlikely that anyof the passengers or crewmembers survived.-VNA
The information was revealed by the Department of Civil Aviation of Malaysia on March 31.
This message is different from the one released when the hunt for the missing jet began: “All right, goodnight”.
According to the department, the last conversation between the airtraffic controller and the cockpit of the missing plane was at 1:19 a.mon March 8 (local time).
It said the authoritieswill continue investigations to determine whether those last words fromthe cockpit were spoken by the pilot or co-pilot.
Earlier, MAS Managing Director Ahmad Jauhari Yahya said initialinvestigations showed that the voice was from the co-pilot Fariq AbdulHamid.
The full transcript of the conversation willbe announced at an upcoming meeting with relatives of passengers onboard flight MH370, said the department.
April 1marks the 23rd day of the search for the missing aircraft with 239people aboard, which lost radar contact with air controllers on earlyMarch 8 en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. However, no traces of thejetliner have been found so far.
At present, forcesfrom seven countries are joining the operation on an area of 120,000sq.km on the Indian Ocean, about 1,850 km west of the Australian city ofPerth .
According to Malaysian authorities, theplane was diverted by someone on board and satellite data showed thatit ended in the south Indian Ocean, making it highly unlikely that anyof the passengers or crewmembers survived.-VNA
