TimelineConfirmed7 Mar 2014 23:13 UTCNight of 7–8 March
Second unanswered sat-phone call
23:13:58 UTC
Another ground-to-air telephone call is acknowledged by the SDU and unanswered in the cockpit.
At 23:13:58 UTC a second sat-phone call was placed. As with the 18:39 call, the terminal acknowledged; no voice answer was recorded. Thirty-seven minutes later the last successful hourly handshake occurred, and nine minutes after that the aircraft itself initiated a log-on associated with fuel exhaustion.
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TimelineConfirmed7 Mar 2014 18:39 UTC
Unanswered ground-to-air telephone call
18:39:52 UTC
TimelineConfirmed8 Mar 2014 00:10 UTC
Handshake 6 — last successful hourly ping
00:10:58 UTC 8 March
TimelineOfficial finding8 Mar 2014 00:19 UTC
Handshake 7 — aircraft-initiated log-on
00:19:29 UTC · probable fuel exhaustion
TimelineConfirmed7 Mar 2014 22:41 UTC
Handshake 5
22:41:19 UTC