The Flight of the MH370 [2] from page 3 [or 8] of the report:
16:41 — Kuala Lumpur Airport N2.73E101.71 — Takeoff.[0]
17:19 — Tansponder and ACARS dismantled. Start of turnaround at IGARI N6.92E103.58 northeast through N7E103.7 [325 miles]
17:22 — N7.2E103.7 — Turnaround complete after 3 minutes and 25 miles and now heading west. [+25 miles]
17:51 — Penang Island N5.3E100.3 [+268 miles] followed by a turn to the northwest.
18:22 — N6.6E96.3 — Heading northwest from Penang Island. Malaysian military loses radar contact with plane at this point. [+289 miles]
After travelling the last hour from the turnaround averaging 557mph [268+289] with a turn at Penang Island pilot cuts power to nonessential systems to evade radar, takes it off autopilot, and begins to fly manually slowing down in preparation for an upcoming turn. This probably cut air/oxygen to passenger compartment causing hypoxia for all but the pilot.
18:25 — Log On Request automatically sent to satellite to restore power just cut 3 minutes earlier but it takes 4 more minutes for the power to kick back on.
18:29 — N6.85E95.45 Turning Point Southwest. Plane flown manually for 7 minutes averaging 530mph for 61 miles and then the power kicks back in at this point after it turns South. [+61 miles]
—— — 968 total miles from takeoff to here
18:39 — Unanswered ground to air telephone call #1. Was it triggered by Log On Request??
19:41 — S2E93 — 634 miles @528mph Another smaller turn south required here.
20:41 — S9.75E92.5 — 536 miles @536mph
21:41 — S17.5E92 — 536 miles @536mph
22:41 — S25.25E91.5 — 536 miles @536mph Autopilot disengaged at about this point to change speed and/or direction.
—— — 3210 miles from takeoff to here
23:14 — Unanswered ground to air telephone call #2. Was it triggered by a Log On Request that’s not listed???
24:11a — S36E90.5 — 745 miles @496mph [same direction but slower speed]. Total to this point 3955 miles.
24:11b — S30E97.5 — 527 miles @351mph [eastward and slower speed to center of the search area]. Total to this point 3737 miles.
24:11c — S27.5E100 — 583 miles @389mph [eastward and slower speed to northeast part of search area]. Total to this point 3793 miles.
24:19 — Log On Request — last communication — power off at end of flight.
From page 2 or 7 of the report:
<>At 1725 the aircraft deviated from the flight-planned route<>
Let’s see what that would mean:
16:41 — Kuala Lumpur Airport N2.73E101.71 — Takeoff.[0]
17:19 — Tansponder and ACARS dismantled.
17:22 — N7E103.7 [8 miles ne of IGARI N6.92E103.58] Last radar contact. [325 miles]
17:25 — N7.3E103.9 Aircraft deviates from flight-planned route and begins turnaround [+25 miles]
17:28 — N7.2E103.7 — Turnaround completed and now heading west to Penang. [+25 miles]
—— — Penang Island N5.3E100.3 [+268 miles] followed by a turn to the northwest.
18:22 — N6.6E96.3 — Heading northwest from Penang Island. Malaysian military loses radar contact with plane at this point. [+289 miles]
This would mean that it would have had to fly 557 miles [269+289] in only 54 minutes at a speed of 641mph — and that with a turn at Penang — and that is just not possible.
The Turn: North versus South:
If heading North a turn at 18:29 would not have been critical or necessary, but heading South such a turn would have been, as well as the earliest possible point when such a turn could have successfully been made to get around Sumatra and and evade Indonesian radar.
If heading North the plane could have continued on its westnorthwest heading for another 2 hours and 1100 miles to the Bay of Bengal when at any point it could then have turned North. In doing so it would not have been able to hit any of the Inmarsat arcs. This is the way Malaysian officials thought it went after their fruitless search in the South China Sea. The pilot’s maneuver at 18:22 to go dark and evade their radar was thus successful at conning them — and they are still reeling from it.
If it went North from N6.85E95.45 @18:29 to N34E82 @22:41 hitting the arcs along the way, it would have flown 2062 miles @491mph average with only that 1 turn of ~30 degrees at 1829.
But turning South at that point to its 2241 intersection is 2242 miles @534mph average with 2 turns: the first a big turn of ~90 degrees at 18:29 and the second lesser turn at 1941 of ~30 degrees.
Cruising speed of a Boeing777 is ~580mph. MH370 averages 557mph until the turn but then slows after the turn to 491mph North versus 534mph South.
Both require change in speed and/or direction at 22:41 to hit the 2411 arc. If it slowed down at 22:41 on the same heading it would hit Almaty Kazakistan N43.28E76.89 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almaty at 24:11 after another 693 miles @462mph average.
The speed factor, the autopilot factor, the radar factor, the satellite location factor, and the maneuver at 18:22 followed by Log On Request at 18:25 adn then the frequency burst at 18:29 all point to the turn South —
Nothing points North —