Caixin Explains: How MH370 Should Have Been Able to Send Emergency Message

(Beijing) – It has been more than 80 hours since Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 lost contact with ground controllers. No progress has been reported in finding the missing flight, which was carrying 239 passengers and crew members.

The Boeing 777-200 jet left Sepang, near Kuala Lumpur, at 00:42 a.m. on March 8 and was due to arrive in Beijing at 6:30 a.m. But air traffic controllers lost contact with it at about 1:20 a.m. while it was flying over the South China Sea, south of Vietnam's Ca Mau Peninsula.