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Home-simulator coordinates are not an official finding of planning

Files exist. Commentators map a southern route. The 2018 report did not convert that into premeditation.

Official underwater search suspended

17 January 2017

Australia, Malaysia and China suspend the ATSB-led search after 120,000 km² of seabed have been covered with no wreckage.

Fuel exhaustion, then uncontrolled descent at the 7th arc

Prevailing official end-of-flight model

After a long southern cruise the aircraft flames out near 00:19 UTC, the SDU logs on from APU/emergency power, and the aeroplane leaves controlled flight. Wreckage should lie on or near the 7th arc.

MH370 search operation 2025/2026 — update to families

Ministry of Transport Malaysia · 8 March 2026

Official family briefing: 28 operational days, ~7,571 km² of the 15,000 km² box surveyed, no wreckage confirmed. Contract later extended to June 2027.

Safety Investigation Report — MH370

Malaysian ICAO Annex 13 Team · 30 July 2018

The official accident report. Cause undetermined. Diversion likely from manual inputs; third-party intervention not excluded; 00:19 log-on treated as fuel exhaustion. No wreckage, no recorders.

The diversion likely resulted from manual inputs

Official 2018 consensus. Who made the inputs is not identified. Mechanical-only stories are a poor fit for a coherent reverse course plus comms dropout.

The 00:19 log-on is probable fuel exhaustion

Official finding: aircraft-initiated log-on most likely a power restore after dual flame-out and APU/bus bring-up.

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.

Malaysia releases the safety investigation report

30 July 2018

The ICAO Annex 13 team, led by Kok Soo Chon, publishes hundreds of pages and cannot determine the cause. Diversion is judged likely from manual inputs. Third-party intervention is not excluded.

Two waves of MH370-themed cyberattacks

9 March official-network intrusion · March–April public malware lures

Working chart of two separate campaigns. Attack one: 9 March spear-phish of officials at the Department of Civil Aviation, National Security Council and Malaysia Airlines — CyberSecurity Malaysia’s public account, disclosed in August. Attack two: MyCERT alerts on 24 March and 18 April about MH370-themed backdoors and a fake investigation-transcript phish aimed more widely. Destination IP in China is not the same as a finding that Beijing ran the operation.

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.

DODIG-2013-128 — Blue Devil Block 2

DoD Inspector General · 19 September 2013 · 54 pages · Drive source copy

Primary. FA8620-11-C-4024, ~$149m spent, payload stop 4 Jan 2012, residual components absorbed into other Air Force programmes.

Factual Information — MH370

Malaysian investigation team · interim releases 2014–2015

Early factual compilations: aircraft history, crew, cargo, ATC transcripts, radar, SATCOM. Released before debris and before the 2018 analysis chapters. The 8 March 2015 issue (updated 15 April 2015) is held here as a downloadable original.

Mechanical / cargo-fire failure

Official report: no identified failure mode fits

A running systems failure that also produces a coherent reverse course and six more hours of SATCOM is a poor fit. Lithium-battery cargo was reviewed and not adopted as cause.

The Operational Search for MH370

ATSB AE-2014-054 · final search report 2017

Australia’s account of how the southern Indian Ocean search box was drawn, refined, and exhausted over 120,000 km². Primary technical home of the 7th-arc argument used in the field.

Third-party intervention cannot be excluded

Quoted residual from the 2018 report. Not a finding that it happened.

Third-party intervention

Official report: cannot be excluded

The Annex 13 team wrote that intervention by a third party cannot be excluded. Remote hijack as implemented technology on commercial 777s was ruled out.

CyberSecurity Malaysia

National cyber agency · publicly described the 9 March intrusion in August 2014

Confirmed. Agency under the then Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation. CEO Amirudin Abdul Wahab is the named source for the 9 March spear-phish of investigation officials. Digital forensics support to the affected departments; work with police and Interpol.

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.

Investigation networks spear-phished the day after MH370 vanished

CyberSecurity Malaysia · ~30 PCs · disclosed 20 August 2014

Confirmed as CSM’s public account. On 9 March, officials at the Department of Civil Aviation, the National Security Council and Malaysia Airlines were sent malware disguised as a news article that the aircraft had been found. About thirty computers were infected. Outbound mail carrying confidential files, including meeting minutes and classified documents, some related to MH370, was traced to an IP in China. CSM shut the machines down and asked Chinese providers to block the traffic. Police and Interpol were involved. What exactly was stolen is still unpublished.

MyCERT: MH370-themed backdoor and fake-transcript spear-phish

MA-381 · 24 March 2014 · MA-386 · 18 April 2014

Confirmed public advisories, a different campaign from the 9 March official-network intrusion. 24 March: a Facebook-app lure dropping a backdoor with remote-control (C2) capability. 18 April: emails posing as an investigation team / ICAO portal item, password-protected archive, fake MH370 transcript, command-and-control. Aimed at organisations and the public, not shown to be the DCA/NSC/MAS breach.

The 7th arc

00:19:29 UTC aircraft-initiated log-on

BTO range ring at the last transmission. Official and Ocean Infinity boxes are arguments about a segment of this arc plus a stand-off. It is not a crash pin.

The radar story and the 9 March cyberattack

Working chart · tracks, delays, and a spear-phish of the investigation

Two panels. Left: civilian secondary, Malaysian military primary, Thai paint disclosed ten days later, and the 12-hour lag before the civilian rescue centre was told. Right: one day after the loss, officials on the investigation were hit with a spear-phish that CyberSecurity Malaysia later said stole classified material toward an IP in China. Presence of a hack is confirmed as that agency’s public account. What was in the take — and whether it included radar — is still open.

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.

7th arc (schematic locus)

00:19 UTC range ring from Inmarsat I-3

Search geometry, not a wreck coordinate. Official and Ocean Infinity boxes are arguments about a segment of this arc.

BD764 and BE144 — named radar feeds, and a gap after 18:02:59 UTC

Secondary ends with the transponder · primary westbound · later points still to source

The working chart labels two Malaysian Air Defence datasets: BD764 (secondary, 10-second intervals, early flight, ends 01:21 MYT with the transponder) and BE144 (primary, 10-second intervals, westbound after the turn, ends 18:02:59 UTC). The 2018 reconstruction then shows a last military return at 18:22:12 UTC after a gap. Those later points exist in the official track. Their raw source is not public.

Blue Devil I operational demonstration ends

31 December 2013 · four King Airs returning to Leidos

Attributed via Inside the Air Force, 22 Jan 2014, quoting USAF officials. The four leased King Airs were returning to Leidos, so the original Afghanistan fleet was not an operational candidate on 8 March 2014. The multi-INT sensor package remained US Government property and was being assessed for reassignment (MC-12 and MQ-9 mentioned, not selected). The sensors did not disappear with the lease.

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.

Business Case Analysis of MAGIC UAV System

Naval Postgraduate School thesis · public PDF

Academic model of MAGIC as long-range ISR, not a named communications-relay payload. The $510m RDT&E figure in the thesis is an academic model, not an official acquisition estimate.

DSTG

Defence Science and Technology Group · Bayesian path analysis

Produced the posterior along the 7th arc used to site the official underwater box.

FIRST RF Phase II — dual-band UHF/X-band airborne SAR

FA8650-11-C-1016 · $749,593 · start 26 Jan 2011 · topic AF093-138

Official SBIR: lightweight dual-band UHF/X-band SAR on a modified Artemis COTS radar plus FIRST RF single-aperture antenna. SWaP ~20 lb / 150 W. Design target included Shadow 200. A concrete alternative to treating Orion as the unnamed FY2013 RF Persistent Sensing platform.

Inside the Investigation: The Search for MH370 Truth

7NEWS · Peter Foley, Joe Hattley

Former lead search officials on internal protocol, sonar-mapping mistakes, and why a debris field can still be found. An Australian operational view, not a cockpit narrative.

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.

Pouria Nour Mohammad Mehrdad

Passenger · Iranian · boarded on a stolen Italian passport

Iranian. Travelled on MH370 using an Italian passport stolen from Luigi Maraldi. Later identified by name. The official investigation treated him as a likely asylum seeker, not as a hijacker.

Seyed Mohammed Reza Delavar

Passenger · Iranian · boarded on a stolen Austrian passport

Iranian. Travelled on MH370 using an Austrian passport stolen from Christian Kozel. Later identified by name. The official investigation treated him as a likely asylum seeker, not as a hijacker.

Southern Indian Ocean

Search theatre after 15 March 2014

The ocean in which official and private underwater campaigns have been conducted.

The last radio call is attributed to the captain

Official voice identification. Calm, protocol-correct handover two minutes before transponder loss.

Turn back across the Malay Peninsula

17:21–17:52 UTC

Primary radar shows a left turn off the Beijing airway, a crossing of Malaysia, and a track toward the Andaman Sea. The official report calls this diversion likely the result of manual inputs.

Two stolen European passports

Italian and Austrian documents · two Iranian travellers

Yes — two Iranian men were on board. They travelled on stolen European passports (Italian and Austrian), not Iranian documents. The official investigation treated them as likely asylum seekers and did not adopt a terrorism finding.

USAF: Gorgon Stare Increment 2 ‘tried operationally’

Air & Space Forces · 7 April 2014 · Col Brandon Baker

A named USAF official puts Increment 2 operational-trial activity by early April 2014. It does not establish airborne availability on 7–8 March.

WSPR anomaly set (Godfrey)

Ham-radio SNR disturbances offered as a track · unverified

Richard Godfrey reports ~130 disturbances over the southern Indian Ocean, currently terminating in a 30 km-radius circle near 29.128°S 99.934°E. Not an official sensor. Not peer-reviewed.

ATSB underwater search box 2014–2017

~120,000 km² · suspended 17 January 2017

High-resolution seabed search along a refined 7th-arc corridor. No wreckage.

Bathymetry and underwater search begin

October 2014

Fugro vessels and partners begin wide-area bathymetric mapping and towed-sonar search of a defined 7th-arc corridor.

Blaine Gibson

Independent debris hunter

Recovered several western-Indian-Ocean pieces, including the Mozambique flap-track fairing. Finds sit in the Malaysian debris tables at various confirmation classes.

Blelly & Marchand: last log-on is not necessarily a straight dive

Independent paper used by Mentour: right-engine flame-out, APU start, cross-feed, possible eastward or gliding end. BFO steep-descent figures can be read as a manoeuvre, not only as a wreck on the arc.

Can the Motorola and mangosteen cargo be rebuilt at carton level?

Working-log Q28–Q35: airway bill 232-10677085, Motorola SKUs, whether radios/transmitters were present, CG effects, and why the Motorola consignment was not X-rayed.

Can WSPR actually track MH370?

Godfrey’s circle near 29.1°S 99.9°E has not been AUV-searched. The method is unpublished in accredited journals and the database is closed. Correlation with simulator coordinates is not identification.

Captain’s home flight-simulator files

Imaged by RMP · restored coordinates mapped by commentators

Files exist. A restored route into the southern Indian Ocean has been published. The 2018 report did not treat this as a reconstructed plan.

Cargo, including lithium-ion batteries

Manifest reviewed; fire hypothesis not supported

The aircraft carried cargo including lithium-ion batteries. The investigation found they were packed to regulation and did not support a cargo-fire cause.

Controlled descent / ditching

Someone still flying at the end

A pilot or system flies a glide after flame-out, so the wreck lies tens of kilometres from the 7th arc. Flaperon damage is read by some independent engineers as consistent with a ditching sequence.

CSIRO debris-drift studies

Griffin, Oke, et al. · 2016–2017

Oceanographic reverse-drift of the Réunion flaperon and other debris, used to weight 7th-arc latitudes. Field trials on a replica flaperon informed windage.

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.

Flight-crew diversion

Manual inputs from the cockpit — who, and why, unproven

The 2018 report says the turn-back likely resulted from manual inputs. It does not identify a crew member as perpetrator and did not treat the home simulator as a plan.

Freescale gyros and the laser / directed-energy race

January 2025 briefing video: twenty Freescale employees on MH370; gyroscopic sensors; a US-led race with China and Russia on precision laser directed energy; later public silence on Freescale’s role; a prime contractor with Vanguard, BlackRock and State Street as large holders, and a reported 38% profit rise in 2014 after missile-defence grants.

Is Flight 370 still sending signals?

CNN · 13 March 2014 · 2:09

Week-one report, before the 15 March Inmarsat southern-arc briefing. Captures the live confusion over whether the aircraft was still electrically alive.

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.

Jeff Wise

Aviation journalist · Finding MH370

CNN-era MH370 analyst. Author of the 2015 northern-hijack / spoofed-BFO thesis. Host of Finding MH370. Treats the default pilot-suicide search as a failed prediction because the wreck is still unfound.

JORN not tasked the night of 7–8 March 2014

Australian over-the-horizon radar · peacetime status

Wikipedia and Australian statements: Jindalee Operational Radar Network was not operational / not tasked that night. Absence of a JORN track is not a northern-path proof.

Last voice contact

17:19:30 UTC · “Good night Malaysian three seven zero”

Lumpur Radar transfers MH370 to Ho Chi Minh. The reply — attributed to the captain — is the last recorded voice transmission from the flight.

MAGIC

Medium Altitude Global ISR and Communications

USAF endurance-ISR programme. Air vehicle: Aurora Orion. Office: 645 AESG / BIG SAFARI — the same rapid-acquisition group that ran Gorgon Stare and took Blue Devil residuals. Confirmed as a multi-day ISR platform in that family. A specific MH370 operation is not established and is not ruled out.