[hoosiermama]

Two strange things in transcript article

http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/missing-plane-transcript-Malaysia-Airlines/2014/03/21/id/561067/?ns_mail_uid=55022755&ns_mail_job=1561307_03222014&promo_code=16E46-1

[hoosiermama]

Images since disappearance

http://www.newsmax.com/TheWire/missing-malaysian-airlines-flight-mh370-images/2014/03/18/id/560276/

[Yosemitest]

I'm a retired Air Traffic Controller with 26+ years military and 5 years FAA experience.
Here's another link to that transcript:

MH370 Transcript (PDF)

MH370 Transcript (Text)

It's important to NOTICE the note at the bottom of it.

Transcript based on Mandarin version of English language transcript.
Some wording may not be exact.

Now there's an "UNDERSTATEMENT" !
I can tell you from experience that the 'quote' TRANSCRIPT is not an actual transcript, with REAL Air Traffic Control PHRASEOLOGY.

But let's take a look at it anyway, with the understanding that all other verbiage to other aircraft the controller/controllers was working on the same frequency ~ has been removed.

KL CONTROL TOWER

00:36:30 MH370: ATC, this is MH370, good morning

ATC: Good morning, MH370, This is KL control tower, please remain in A10 32R

Tower just told MH370 to "Hold Short of Runway 32 Right on Taxiway A-10".

00:36:50 MH370: A10, MH370 copies that

00:38:43 ATC: MH370, please get on the runway from 32R A10

MH370: runway from 32R A10, copy that

Tower told MH370 "Runway 32 Right, Taxi into position and Hold"

00:40:38 ATC: MH370, position 32R, runway ready, permitted to take off. Good night

MH370: position 32R, runway ready, permitted to take off.
MH370 copies that. Thank you, goodbye.

Tower has changed MH370 to Radar Approach Control Frequency.

KL AIRPORT

00:42:05 MH370: MH370 has left the port

00:42:10 ATC: MH370 position confirmed, flight altitude 180, follow the command and turn right, target IGARI waypoint.

00:42:40 MH370: Alright, altitude 180, direction IGARI waypoint,
MH370 copies that

00:42:52 ATC: MH370, you’ve entered KL Radar 132.6, good night

MH370: 132.6, MH370 copies that

Radar Approach Control has changed MH370 to Air Route Traffic Control Center's frequency.

KL RADAR

00:46:51 MH370: KL ATC, This is MH370

ATC: MH370, please climb to flight altitude 250

00:46:54 MH370: MH370 is climbing to flight altitude 250

00:50:06 ATC: MH370, climbing to flight altitude 350

00:50:09 MH370: This is MH370, flight altitude 350

01:01:14 MH370: MH370 remaining in flight altitude 350

01:01:19 ATC: MH370

01:07:55 MH370: MH370 remaining in flight altitude 350

Now right here is where some question this transmission.
They state "The message was not necessary, repeating the same information from six minutes earlier."
But from a controller's point of view, MH370 might NOT have heard the Air Route Traffic Control Center's 01:01:19 acknowledgement of his 01:01:14 transmission.

Another article states:

"A former British Airways pilot who flew the same kind of aircraft found nothing suspicious about that exchange.
"It could be as simple as the pilot forgetting or not being sure that he had told air traffic controllers he had reached the altitude," the former pilot, Steve Landells, told The Telegraph.
"He might be reconfirming he was at 350 (35,000 feet).
It is not unusual. I wouldn't read anything into it.""
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So I think it would be "grasping at straws" to try to make something of that transmission.

01:08:00 ATC: MH370

01:19:24 ATC: MH370, please contact Hu Chi Minh City 120.9, good night

01:19:29 MH370: All right, good night

Transcript based on Mandarin version of English language transcript.
Some wording may not be exact.