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As the search for the missing MH370 airlines deepens , investigators are getting closer to finding the missing links in the sudden disappearance of the aircraft.
Investigators are assuming that the last words of the co-pilot in the flight to ground controllers before it vanished into thin air could have been an SOS of sorts.
First Officer Fariq Abdul Hamid, 27, had calmly said ‘All right, good night’ shortly before Flight MH370 disappeared ten days ago.
The cockpit sign-off to air traffic controllers — not the recognized radio drill of 'Roger and out'- came at 1.19am on March 8, as the jet left Malaysian airspace to fly to Beijing.
Minute after the message, the Boeing 777-200’s transponder, which transmits signals to radar stations, was shut down, and the jet went off course.
Officials are now wondering if the queer sign-off was a secret signal that there was danger on the flight deck.
The search for the missing Malaysian aircraft is being deemed as the biggest search in aviation history, with the total area of 30 million square miles, or a tenth of the planet, being scoured in search.
Malaysian Defense Minister Hishammuddin Hussein said in a press meet that locating the missing plane was the prime focus and expressed that it might be discovered intact.
'The fact that there was no distress signal, no ransom notes, no parties claiming responsibility, there is always hope,' Hishammuddin said at a news conference.
Malaysian Airlines CEO Ahmad Jauhari Yahya confirmed that the last words heard from the plane by ground controllers - 'All right, good night' - were spoken by the co-pilot, Fariq Abdul Hamid.
Had it been a voice of somone else besides Fariq or Zaharie Ahmad Shah (pilot), it would have been a clear indication that something was amiss in the cockpit.
Malaysian officials had earlier claimed that those words came after one of the jetliner's data communications systems - the Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System – was shut down, suggesting that the last message was transmitted to deceive ground controllers.
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