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Vietnam and Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370
On Saturday, 8 March 2014 Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 departed from Kuala Lumpur International Airport at 00:42 (MYT). The aircraft, a Boeing 777-200ER was carrying 12 crew and 227 passengers. The flight was expected to arrive in Beijing at 6:30 am (MYT). As the aircraft was approaching waypoint IGARI over the South China Sea, air traffic controllers advised MH370 to contact the controllers in Vietnam. That contact was never made; the aircraft made a turn-back west across the Malay Peninsula; changed direction again and flew north west towards the Andaman Sea; and then turned south. Flight MH370 ended in the southern Indian Ocean.
Air Traffic Controllers in Ho Chi Minh attempted to contact flight MH370; requested other aircraft contact MH370; and tried to convince air traffic controllers in Kuala Lumpur that flight MH370 did not proceed through Vietnamese air space.
Vietnam supplied four aircraft and two ships[1] to support the initial search for MH370 which began in the South China Sea, east of Malaysia, and continued until 15th March.
Vietnam also conducted search operations within their territory using an unspecified number of aircraft.[2]
During the investigation by the The Malaysian ICAO Annex 13 Safety Investigation Team for MH370, a visit was made to the office of the Vietnamese Civil Aviation Authority (CAAV) in Ho Chi Minh City. Details are provided in the Safety Investigation Report MH370/01/2018 1.1.3 3) Ho Chi Minh Air Traffic Services.
March 10, 2014
The fate of the missing Malaysian Airlines jet believed to have disappeared off the coast of Vietnam almost three days ago with 239 people aboard remains a mystery, officials said, as authorities stepped up their hunt for the plane.
Malaysia's civil aviation head, Azharuddin Abdul Rahman, speaking to reporters in Kuala Lumpur Monday, said that investigators have so far not found anything that could be part of the missing plane.
But that statement came as Vietnam sent helicopters to investigate a floating "yellow object" suspected of being a life raft from flight MH370 bound for Beijing, Reuters reported. Vietnam's civil aviation body later ruled that out, saying the object was not from the plane.
Separately, six planes and seven ships from Vietnam have so far been unable to find an object spotted by a low-flying plane on Sunday afternoon, authorities said.
Doan Huu Gia, the chief of Vietnam's search and rescue coordination center, said the search for the rectangular piece of debris has proved unsuccessful.
Vietnamese officials said they believe the object is one of the plane's doors, according to local news media reports.
Vietnam civil administration chief Pham Viet Dung said search teams from several countries sent boats to the area about 56 miles south of Tho Chu island, in an area where an oil slick was spotted Saturday. Malaysian maritime officials found some oil slicks in the South China Sea and sent a sample to a lab to see if it came from the plane, Rahman told a news conference on Monday.
Authorities said earlier that they had spotted an object in the area that turned out not to be from the plane.
Source: https://www.ksdk.com/article/news/we-still-dont-know-what-happened-to-flight-mh370/63-282202574
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COORDINATION IN SEARCHING FOR MALAYSIA AIRLINES FLIGHT MH370
This paper was presented by Vietnam to the ICAO Second High-level Safety Conference 2015 (HLSC 2015) Planning for Global Aviation Safety Improvement, Montréal, 2 to 5 February 2015.
A copy of this paper is provided at SAR Report - Vietnam
An extract from this document follows:-
Viet Nam exerted every effort and mobilized all resources necessary to search for the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 as soon as we received the information that the aircraft was missing. Under the direction of the Prime Minister of the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam, in close collaboration with other neighbouring countries, Viet Nam actively coordinated with SAR agencies of the countries concerned, deployed all necessary forces and carried out SAR operations within its area of responsibility (Ho Chi Minh FIR) to the greatest extent in the search of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370.
- ↑ Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB), The Operational Search for MH370, 2017
- ↑ Thursday, March 20, 05:30 PM MYT +0800 Malaysia Airlines MH370 Flight Incident - MH370 Press Briefing by Hishammuddin Hussein, Minister of Defence and Acting Minister of Transport
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