[Route: Kuala Lumpur – Beijing. Inserted: initial search areas and known path. Small red squares: radar contacts. Small circles: claimed spotting of debris.]
The answer is absolutely yes as you can see by the map above the last radar contact was at Pula Perak 1 hr 34 min into the flight heading N/W. The last Evidence of a partial handshake received by Inmarsat-3 F1[31][32] This was 7 hours 38 minutes into the flight! Touch Down Pak or Iran?
The pundits argue that this flight could not fly over India to Pakistan without being detected ...thats true however it need not fly as the crow flies it could have flown West then turned North 200 miles from the tip of India and headed N/W in the Arabia Sea on a direct flight to Pakistan or Iran! Avoiding Radar.
Now the pundits claim they could not have avoided Pakistan or Iran's radar...This is also true...however who said they needed to avoid these radars?... is it not possible the pilot/pilots/crew or ? were working with operatives in the Taliban or ISI of Pakistan?
For the visual effect :
The total flight duration from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia to Lahore, Pakistan is 5 hours, 47 minutes. as the crow flies
This assumes an average flight speed for a commercial airliner of 500 mph, which is equivalent to 805 km/h or 434 knots. It also adds an extra 30 minutes for take-off and landing. Your exact time may vary depending on wind speeds.
This leaves 1 hour and 51 minutes of additional flight time to cover the added distance 7 hours 38 minutes to the coast of Pak or Iran via the Arabian Sea flight course! So they would have had the fuel and the abilty to avoid unwanted painted radar!
Here are the facts:
Timeline of disappearance
| Elapsed (HH:MM) | Time | Event | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MYT | UTC | ||||
| 00:00 | 8 March | 7 March | Take-off from KUL | ||
| 00:41 | 16:41 | ||||
| 00:20 | 01:01 | 17:01 | MH370 confirms altitude of 35,000 feet (11,000 m)[27] | ||
| 00:26 | 01:07 | 17:07 | Last ACARS data transmission received;[28] MH370 reconfirms altitude of 35,000 feet[27] | ||
| 00:38 | 01:19 | 17:19 | Last Malaysian ATC voice contact[26] | ||
| 00:40 | 01:21 | 17:21 | Last secondary radar (transponder) contact at 6°55′15″N 103°34′43″E | ||
| 00:41 | 01:22 | 17:22 | Transponder and ADS-B now off | ||
| 00:49 | 01:30 | 17:30 | Unsuccessful voice contact from another aircraft, mumbling/static audible[22] | ||
| 00:56 | 01:37 | 17:37 | Missed expected half-hourly ACARS data transmission[28] | ||
| 01:30 | 02:11 | 18:11 | First of seven automated hourly 'handshakes' with the Inmarsat-3 F1 satellite.[29] | ||
| 01:34 | 02:15 | 18:15 | Last primary radar contact by Malaysian military, 200 miles (320 km) NW of Penang | ||
| 05:49 | 06:30 | 22:30 | Missed scheduled arrival at PEK | ||
| 07:30 | 08:11 | 00:11 | Last automated hourly handshake with Inmarsat-3 F1[29][30] | ||
| 07:38 | 08:19 | 00:19 | Evidence of a partial handshake received by Inmarsat-3 F1[31][32] | ||
| 07:49 | 08:30 | 00:30 | Malaysia Airlines pronounces flight missing in message to media[33] | ||
| 08:34 | 09:15 | 01:15 | Handshake attempt by Inmarsat was unanswered by MH370[29] | ||
Until the aircraft is located all we can do is speculate on the facts given!
The flight departed from Kuala Lumpur International Airport on 8 March at 00:41 local time (16:41 UTC, 7 March) and was scheduled to land at Beijing Capital International Airport at 06:30 local time (22:30 UTC, 7 March). It climbed to its assigned cruise altitude of 35,000 feet (11,000 m) and was travelling at 471 knots (542 mph; 872 km/h) true airspeed when it ceased all communications and the transponder signal was lost. The aircraft's last known position on 8 March at 01:21 local time (17:21 UTC, 7 March) was 6°55′15″N 103°34′43″E, corresponding to the navigational waypoint IGARI in the Gulf of Thailand, at which the aircraft was due to alter its course slightly eastward.[18] Military tracking shows that the aircraft descended as low as 12,000 feet (3,700 m) after taking a sharp turn toward the Strait of Malacca. The sharp turn seemed to be intentional as normally it would have taken two minutes for the aircraft to make such a turn, and during that time there was no emergency call.[19]
The crew were expected to contact air traffic control in Ho Chi Minh City as the aircraft passed into Vietnamese airspace just north of the point where contact was lost.[20][21] The captain of another aircraft had attempted to reach the crew of Flight 370 "just after 1:30 a.m." to relay Vietnamese Air Traffic Control's request for the crew to contact it; the captain said he was able to establish contact, but just heard "mumbling" and static.[22]
Malaysia Airlines (MAS) issued a media statement at 07:24, one hour after the scheduled arrival of the flight at Beijing, stating that contact with the flight had been lost by Malaysian ATC at 02:40. MAS stated that the government had initiated search and rescue operations.[23] It later emerged that Subang Air Traffic Control had lost contact with the aircraft at 01:22 and notified Malaysia Airlines at 02:40. Neither the crew nor the aircraft's onboard communication systems relayed a distress signal, indications of bad weather, or technical problems before the aircraft vanished from radar screens.[24][25] The last words that Malaysian air traffic controllers heard, at 01:19, were those of the co-pilot saying, "All right, good night."[26]
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