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Waypoint IGARI

17:20:31 UTC

MH370 passes IGARI, the FIR boundary between Kuala Lumpur and Ho Chi Minh, seconds before disappearing from secondary radar.

Waypoint IGARI

FIR boundary · Gulf of Thailand

Last secondary-radar / planned-route point. Transfer to Ho Chi Minh failed.

Who was flying after IGARI?

Official report: cannot establish if anyone other than the two pilots was at the controls. Manual inputs likely; actor unknown.

Malaysian military primary-radar track

17:21–18:22 UTC · westbound after IGARI

Primary radar paints a left turn off the Beijing airway, a crossing of the peninsula, and a track up the Strait of Malacca until 18:22 UTC. Altitude/speed blip-to-blip in the file are noisier than 777 performance.

Remote-control claims versus evidence gaps

Patent, QF-16, Teso FMS proof-of-concept · installation on 9M-MRO still open

Working chart: unmanned flight of a fighter-class jet was demonstrated in 2013; Boeing’s uninterruptible-autopilot patent exists; Hugo Teso showed an FMS proof-of-concept the same year. Boeing told Malaysian investigators there was no commercial implementation on the 2002 delivery. Radar proves a turn at IGARI, not who commanded it. Ten data requests remain.

Communications were more likely switched off or unpowered than randomly failed

ACARS, transponder and VHF drop together near IGARI. The report favours manual off / power interrupt, without proving intent.

Deep Dive: MH370 Episode Three — The Turn Back

Deep Dive Podcast Network · 28 September 2023 · 31:12

Podcast reconstruction of the air turn-back after IGARI: military primary radar, heading 273°, altitude and speed blips the 2018 report itself flags as noisy.

Level at FL350

17:01:17 UTC

The captain reports maintaining flight level 350. The aircraft is established on the filed route toward waypoint IGARI.

Transponder dropped in two steps, not as a single failure

Mentour Pilot and others: Mode S / TA-RA selected off seconds after IGARI; the remaining secondary-radar symbol gone ~37 seconds later; then the left turn. A total electrical failure would have blanked every emitter at once.

Zaharie Ahmad Shah

Pilot in command · MH370

Last attributed radio call: “Good night Malaysian three seven zero.” Home simulator files exist; the 2018 report did not treat them as a reconstructed plan. Who was flying after IGARI is open.

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.

Capt. John Cox: preponderance is a deliberate act, high likelihood the captain

June 2026 interview. FIR-boundary dropout, reverse course, ocean leg — too many coincidences for a random failure, in his reading. Not a court finding and not the 2018 report’s wording.

Flight MH370 — 17 Fascinating Facts

J. Jericho / The Free School · March 2019 · Drive backup PDF

Independent compilation of official-file facts with annexes (simulator pages, passenger list, cargo docs, Boeing patent, ACARS log). Not an official report. Several numbered “facts” still need MOT/ATSB cross-check.

Kuala Lumpur International Airport

Departure · 16:42 UTC 7 March 2014

Runway 32R. Origin of MH370.

MH370 departs Kuala Lumpur

16:42 UTC · 00:42 MYT 8 March 2014

Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, a Boeing 777-2H6ER registered 9M-MRO, takes off from KLIA runway 32R bound for Beijing Capital International Airport with 227 passengers and 12 crew.

MH370: The Forensic Evidence

Capt. John Cox · Sit Down With Sid · 13 June 2026 · 37:10

US accident investigator. Reads the transponder drop at the FIR boundary, the southwest run to MEKAR, the northwest turn, and the 300-mile ocean leg as too many coincidences for a random failure. Preponderance, in his view: a deliberate act, high likelihood the captain.

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.