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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wolverine GTR" data-source="post: 16403563" data-attributes="member: 158020">What happened to Malaysia Airlines Flight 370? About an hour after taking off from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on Saturday,  March 8, a Boeing 777-200ER jetliner went missing while flying to  Beijing. The scheduled route <img src="http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/interactive/2014/03/world/malaysia-flight-map/media/malaysia-01.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> The Boeing 777-200ER takes off from Kuala Lumpur, the Malaysian capital,  at 12:41 a.m. Saturday (12:41 p.m. Friday ET).The red-eye flight is  scheduled to arrive in Beijing at 6:30 a.m. the same day, after a  roughly 2,700-mile (4,350-kilometer) journey. There are 239 people on board: 227 passengers and 12 crew members. Five of the passengers are younger than 5 years old. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Lost contact, apparent course change <img src="http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/interactive/2014/03/world/malaysia-flight-map/media/malaysia-02.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> Around 1:30 a.m., air traffic controllers in Subang, outside Kuala  Lumpur, lose contact with the plane over the sea between Malaysia and  Vietnam. The plane's transponder, which identifies the aircraft and  relays details like altitude and speed to controllers, stops  transmitting. A senior Malaysian air force official on  Tuesday says the flight was hundreds of miles off course and traveling  in the opposite direction from its original destination. It was last  tracked over over Pulau Perak, a tiny island in the Strait of Malacca at  about 2:40 a.m., over an hour after air traffic controllers in Subang  lost contact with the aircraft. At a news briefing Wednesday, however, Gen.  Rodzali Daud, head of the Malaysian Air Force, and other officials say  it isn't yet clear whether the object that showed up on military radar  flying over the sea northwest of the Malaysian coast early Saturday was  the missing plane. Adding to the puzzle, the Wall Street Journal  reported Thursday that the plane may have continued flying for four  hours after its last reported contact, attributing the information to  two unidentified sources who were citing data automatically transmitted  to the ground from the aircraft's Rolls-Royce-manufactured engines. A  senior aviation source with detailed knowledge of the matter told CNN's  Richard Quest on Thursday the WSJ account in incorrect. The paper later  corrects its story, saying it was satellite data, not engine data, that  drove the belief the plane continued to fly. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The search <img src="http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/interactive/2014/03/world/malaysia-flight-map/media/malaysia-03.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> Several planes, ships and search crews from 14 countries begin scouring  the South China Sea near where the plane was last detected. After debris  in the area and an oil slick turn out to be unrelated to the plane, the  search area is expanded to include the waters west of Malaysia. China's  State Administration for Science, Technology and Industry for National  Defense release satellite photos of possible wreckage, but later  announce that the release was a mistake, and the debris in the photos  was unrelated to Flight 370. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The extended search area <img src="http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/interactive/2014/03/world/malaysia-flight-map/media/mh370-range.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> Flight 370 was fueled for a trip to Beijing. Based on fuel estimates,  the aircraft could have flown an additional 2,500 miles after the point  of last contact. Malaysian authorities said Thursday they believe several "pings" of data  from the airliner's service data system, known as ACARS, transmitted to  satellites in the four to five hours after the last transponder signal,  a senior U.S. official told CNN. This new information, combined with  known radar data and knowledge of fuel range leads officials to believe  the plane may have made it to the Indian Ocean. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ New details purport two theories <img src="http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/interactive/2014/03/world/malaysia-flight-map/media/mh370-two-paths.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> On Friday, electronic and satellite data, conducted by the United States  and Malaysian governments, that calculates Flight 370 likely crashed  into the Indian Ocean on one of two possible flight paths. Both flight  paths assume the aircraft headed west after losing contact with air  traffic controllers, and crossed the Malay peninsula. One flight path  suggests the plane crashed into the Bay of Bengal off the coast of  India, and the other has it crashing in the Indian Ocean, according to  the analysis. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Satellite 'handshakes' narrow search <img src="http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/interactive/2014/03/world/malaysia-flight-map/media/mh370-possible-positions.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> As the focus of the investigation shifts, so too does the focus of the  search. "The plane's last communication with the satellite was in one of  two possible corridors: a northern corridor stretching approximately  from the border of Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan to northern Thailand, or a  southern corridor stretching approximately from Indonesia to the  southern Indian Ocean," Malaysia's Prime Minister Najib Razak said Saturday. The map to the  left, based on a handout from the Prime Minister's office, highlights  the focused search area - much of which falls over land. While official  contact was lost with Flight 370 about 45 minutes after takeoff,  officials believe a combination of military radar data and a  satellite-based system called ACARS provide hints regarding the path of  the plane. Though no actual data was transmitted via satellite, it still  appears to have made contact through hourly 'handshakes,' the last  instance being at 8:11 a.m. local time somewhere along the red lines.</blockquote>

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