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Route

Filed KUL–PEK. Flown, after IGARI, west across the peninsula and out of primary radar, then — on the SATCOM reading — south into the Indian Ocean. The 7th arc is a range ring, not a crash coordinate.

MH370 radar story and the 9 March cyberattack
Working chart · radar tracks, delays, and the 9 March intrusion
US military presence in theatre, 7–9 March 2014
Public-source evidence board · 7–9 March 2014
Independent chart of the 7th arc, prior sonar boxes, and 2025 Ocean Infinity track
Independent reconstruction · 7th arc and search boxes · 2025
LocationOfficial finding

7th arc (schematic locus)

00:19 UTC range ring from Inmarsat I-3

LocationConfirmed

Andaman Sea / last primary radar

18:22:12 UTC

LocationConfirmed

ATSB underwater search box 2014–2017

~120,000 km² · suspended 17 January 2017

LocationProbable

Daghatane / Mozambique coast

Flap-track fairing and other almost-certain pieces

LocationOpen

Diego Garcia

British Indian Ocean Territory · collection-geography question

LocationConfirmed

Greenville, Texas

BIG SAFARI facility · Blue Devil II GFE available for other programmes

LocationConfirmed

Gulf of Thailand / South China Sea search

Wrong-ocean SAR · 8–14 March 2014

LocationConfirmed

Îlot Bernache, Mauritius

Confirmed left outboard aft flap · 10 May 2016

LocationConfirmed

Kuala Lumpur International Airport

Departure · 16:42 UTC 7 March 2014

LocationProbable

Mossel Bay, South Africa

Engine-cowl fragment with Rolls-Royce marking

LocationConfirmed

NAWS China Lake

Orion first flight · 24 August 2013

LocationConfirmed

Ocean Infinity 2018 corridor

~112,000 km² along a revised arc

LocationConfirmed

Ocean Infinity 2025–27 priority box

15,000 km² · 7,571 surveyed · 7,429 remaining

LocationConfirmed

Pemba Island, Tanzania

Confirmed right outboard flap · 20 June 2016

LocationOfficial finding

Penang

Westbound primary-radar track · FO phone register

LocationConfirmed

Saint-Denis, Réunion

Flaperon find · 29 July 2015

LocationConfirmed

Southern Indian Ocean

Search theatre after 15 March 2014

LocationConfirmed

Surat Thani military radar

Thai Air Force · paint ~01:28 MYT 8 March

LocationConfirmed

Waypoint IGARI

FIR boundary · Gulf of Thailand