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Handshake 2

19:41:00 UTC

Ground-initiated hourly handshake. The aircraft remains a live Inmarsat terminal, southbound on the Indian Ocean corridor in later reconstructions.

Handshake 3

20:41:02 UTC

Third SATCOM handshake. Hourly keep-alive continues.

Handshake 4

21:41:24 UTC

Fourth SATCOM handshake, still on the southern corridor in BFO reconstructions.

Handshake 5

22:41:19 UTC

Fifth SATCOM handshake.

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.

Failed handshake — terminal silent

01:15:56 UTC

The ground station interrogates 9M-MRO and receives no response. The aircraft is no longer a live terminal.

Handshake 7 — aircraft-initiated log-on

00:19:29 UTC · probable fuel exhaustion

The SDU sends a log-on request, then a log-on acknowledge eight seconds later. The investigation treats this as power-up after dual engine flame-out.

Satellite data unit logs back on

18:25:27 UTC · Handshake 1

Three minutes after the last radar paint, the aircraft SDU sends a log-on request to Inmarsat. Investigators treat this as a power restoration to the SATCOM avionics.

Wikipedia timeline — night of 7–8 March 2014

Duty sign-in through failed 09:15 handshake

Compiled public chronology: captain sign-in 22:50 MYT 7 March, F/O 23:15, SDU log-on 00:00, push 00:27, takeoff 00:42, FL350 01:01, last ACARS 01:07, last voice 01:19:30, transponder 01:21:13, Penang cell 01:52, last radar 02:22, SDU log-on 02:25, hourly pings, last transmission 08:19:37, no reply 09:15.

A NEW Trace! The FULL MH370 Story, so Far

Mentour Pilot · Petter Hörnfeldt · 16 March 2024 · 56:06

Type-rated 737 captain’s reconstruction from the 2018 report, Inmarsat BTO/BFO, and the Blelly–Marchand end-of-flight paper. Argues the transponder was selected off in two steps, not failed as a unit. Closes with a WSPR lead and a request to restart the search.

BTO range rings and BFO Doppler residuals

Inmarsat / Ashton et al. · Journal of Navigation

Burst Timing Offset describes distance from the satellite (an arc on the Earth). Burst Frequency Offset encodes relative motion and is why official analysis went south, not north.

Inmarsat signalling-unit log for 9M-MRO

Perth Ground Earth Station · 7–8 March 2014

The table of channel, BTO, BFO and message type that underpins every arc on every search map. Released by Malaysia with Inmarsat notes.

Is the public ACARS log missing a block of messages?

Jericho 2019 attributes a ~26-minute exclusion in the released ACARS traffic log and an ACARS-unavailable window of roughly 22–78 minutes. Needs a line-by-line check against the MOT 2015 Factual Information ACARS appendix.

Malaysia Airlines

Operator of MH370 / 9M-MRO

Declared the flight missing at 23:24 UTC while the SDU was still a live Inmarsat terminal.

Project Quiet Exodus — Part 1

SecretMilitaryTechnology.com thesis · asset denial of the Freescale team

A long-form thesis that MH370 was a US operation to stop twenty Freescale employees reaching China, protecting a compact-fusion / spacetime platform. Public facts inside it (headcount, Carlyle, Lockheed CFR patents, HA08 outage, UCT-2 at Diego Garcia) are filed separately. The operation itself is not established.

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.

The 18:25 log-on follows a SATCOM power interruption

Official: aircraft-initiated log-on three minutes after last radar is most likely SDU power restore. Why power was lost is unknown.

Wikipedia — Malaysia Airlines Flight 370

en.wikipedia.org · living page · read 18 September 2026

Crowd-maintained digest of the public case: 239 dead, 9M-MRO, 8 March 2014, KUL–PEK, cause undetermined. Useful as a citation map into ATSB, MOT, Inmarsat and Ocean Infinity. Not a primary source.

First officer’s phone registers at Penang

17:52:27 UTC

A cell-site handshake from F/O Fariq Abdul Hamid’s mobile is recorded by a Penang tower as the aircraft passes nearby. No call is connected.

Flight MH370 Vanished 10 Years Ago. What’s Happened Since?

CNA Insider · Insight · 8 March 2024 · 47:24

Tenth-anniversary Singapore broadcast: Inmarsat handshake rings, the 120,000 km² ATSB box, family pressure, and the state of independent debris work. Does not adopt a cockpit perpetrator.

Malaysia Airlines declares the flight missing

23:24 UTC

The airline issues a public statement that MH370 is missing, hours after radio and radar contact were lost and while the aircraft is still exchanging satellite handshakes.

Petter Hörnfeldt

Mentour Pilot

56-minute 2024 reconstruction from the official report and independent SATCOM papers. Sequential transponder-off, seven handshakes, Blelly–Marchand end-of-flight, WSPR as a possible extra trace. Stated aim: restart the search.