TimelineConfirmed8 Mar 2014 00:10 UTCNight of 7–8 March
Handshake 6 — last successful hourly ping
00:10:58 UTC 8 March
The last completed ground-initiated handshake. Eight minutes later the aircraft sends a log-on associated with fuel exhaustion.
Handshake 6 at 00:10:58 UTC is the last successful hourly keep-alive. BTO from this ping, together with the 00:19 log-on, defines the 7th arc: a locus of points at a common range from the satellite, along which the aircraft is believed to have been at flame-out. Search areas from 2014 through 2026 are all arguments about where on, or how far from, that arc the wreckage lies.
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TimelineOfficial finding8 Mar 2014 00:19 UTC
Handshake 7 — aircraft-initiated log-on
00:19:29 UTC · probable fuel exhaustion
EvidenceOfficial finding8 Mar 2014 00:19 UTC
The 7th arc
00:19:29 UTC aircraft-initiated log-on
LocationOfficial finding
7th arc (schematic locus)
00:19 UTC range ring from Inmarsat I-3
TimelineConfirmed7 Mar 2014 23:13 UTC
Second unanswered sat-phone call
23:13:58 UTC
TimelineConfirmed7 Mar 2014 23:24 UTC
Malaysia Airlines declares the flight missing
23:24 UTC