Open AccessSeafloor in the Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 Search Area
Author(s) -
Smith Walter H. F.,
Marks Karen M.
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
eos, transactions american geophysical union
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.316
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 2324-9250
pISSN - 0096-3941
DOI - 10.1002/2014eo210001
Subject(s) - kuala lumpur , takeoff , beijing , aeronautics , air traffic control , morning , advertising , takeoff and landing , sign (mathematics) , business , geography , transport engineering , engineering , telecommunications , marketing , china , aerospace engineering , archaeology , medicine , mathematical analysis , mathematics
On the morning of 8 March 2014, Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, lost contact with air traffic control shortly after takeoff and vanished. While the world waited for any sign of the missing aircraft and the 239 people on board, authorities and scientists began to investigate what little information was known about the plane's actual movements.