Posted on 03/31/2014 11:21:47 AM PDT by jimbo123
Malaysian authorities have issued a new version of the last communication between air traffic control and the cockpit of the missing flight MH370.
The last words spoken were "Good night Malaysian three seven zero" - and not "all right, good night" as reported.
The transport ministry said forensic investigations would determine whether the pilot or co-pilot spoke the words.
The plane, carrying 239 people, was travelling from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing when it disappeared on 8 March.
The plane's last contact took place at 01:19 Malaysian time.
The BBC's transport correspondent Richard Westcott says the new version of the last words is more formal and more in keeping with the way a pilot might usually speak to air traffic control than the wording previously reported.
It is not clear why it has changed or why it has taken the authorities this long to determine this, he says.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
Those sound like the sign off from Malaysian ATC to the pilot.
Why is that suspicious???
Subang Control: Malaysia three seven zero climb to three five thousand heading zero one zero, contact Ho Chi Min at one two zero decimal niner!
MH370: three five thousand, zero one zero, Malaysia 370, good night!
Whenever we sign out from radio station to radio station we said good night. I don't see any bad sign with that for radio communications courtesy.
More tomorrow....
I’m thinking the same thing.
Malaysia took issue with the word “crash’’ today, saying the official government statement on March 24, never said so.
How about the words: "controlled landing on water followed by that sinking feeling".
opening an account?
That’s baaaaaaaaad :)
Why get this wrong?
What is wrong with these people?
Can’t they even write a transcript of ten words without screwing it up?
“the new version of the last words is more formal and more in keeping with the way a pilot might usually speak to air traffic control than the wording previously reported”
In other words they made it up. :-)
YUP
Sounded more like:
“AMF”
Very good point. That was what I thought when I read this...it sounded like the “last words” were those spoken by the tower, not by the pilot. And that’s the latest dodge from Malaysia.
See Uncle Chip’s posting #41. The last words, technically, were the ones from ATC, saying “good night Malaysia 370.”
They say they’re “analyzing it” to see if it was from the pilot or the co-pilot, but obviously, it was from neither of them.
LOL!
Subtle.
Well, I believe the wailing relatives. Unless they were taken from the best of King Jong Il mourners.
Malaysian authorities. The Jon Lovitz of government speak.
This made my day.
And that’s the ticket.
Nonrefundable.
Lol
Yep — here is what they previously reported as having been said:
Those Mandarin translators must have a habit of hearing voices —
I am beginning to think the plane was hijacked by CNN operatives.
At stake for us is the safety record of the Boeing 777. We have no reason to believe equipment failure as cause. Not as long as competency and honesty are in question.
Unless all Boeing 777s start veering 180 degrees off course one hour into the flight no matter what the pilots do, their rep remains good.
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