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MH370 Burst Frequency Offset Analysis and Implications on Descent Rate at End-of-Flight

Ian D. Holland

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Abstract

Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 veered off course unexpectedly during a scheduled trip from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on the 7th of March 2014. MH370 was tracked via military radar into the Malacca Straits and, after disappearing from radar, was subsequently believed to have turned south towards the southern Indian Ocean before crashing approximately 6 hours later. This article discusses specifically the analysis of burst frequency offset (BFO) metadata from the SATCOM messages. It is shown that the BFOs corresponding to the last two SATCOM messages from the plane at 00:19:29Z and 00:19:37Z 8th March 2014 suggest that flight MH370 was rapidly descending and accelerating downwards when message exchange with the ground station ceased.

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This article has been accepted for publication in IEEE AES Magazine
Journal reference
IEEE AES Mag., v. 33, no. 2, pp 24-33 (2018)
DOI
doi:10.1109/MAES.2018.170048
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    • Paper available at arXiv [1] [1] "The Use of Burst Frequency Offsets in the Search for MH370" [ https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.02432 ]

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