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NEWS Qantas to make the world's shortest Boeing 747 flight this weekend

NewsBy admin4493 March 8, 2015 Leave a comment

Qantas will carve itself another slice of aviation history this weekend when it makes the world’s shortest Boeing 747 flight, at a mere 15 minutes from wheels-up to landing, as VH-OJA – the airline’s first ever Boeing 744 – flies to her new retirement home at an Australian aviation museum. Link

ALERT Expired battery on beacon of 1 black box means searchers would have had lesser chance of locating MH370 – @AP

ALERT On expired MH370 battery: 'a computer system used to track and call out maintenance was not updated correctly when the flight data recorder was replaced on 29 February 2008' – @MOTMalaysia

NEWS Qantas to make the world's shortest Boeing 747 flight this weekend

ALERT Report: Last contact with MH370 was satellite 'handshake' at 0819 Malaysia time, aircraft did not respond to next handshake at 0915 – @MOTMalaysia

ALERT MH370 report: 'There is no indication of the SATCOM link being manually logged off from the cockpit. Such activity would have been captured in logs, but it was not' – @MOTMalaysia

ALERT Two ground-to-air telephony calls were placed to the cockpit from the MAS Operations Centre at 18:39 UTC and at 23:13 UTC, 07 March. Neither of the calls was answered – @MOTMalaysia

ALERT MH370 report: Underwater locator beacon battery had expired year before plane disappeared – @AP

ALERT MH370 report: 'The flying records which were monitored by the Scheduling Office indicated that all the cabin crew were well-rested before operating the flight' – @MalaysiaMOT

ALERT MH370 report: 'The Captain's ability to handle stress at work and home was good. There was no known history of apathy, anxiety, or irritability. There were no significant changes in his life style, interpersonal conflict or family stresses' – @MOTMalaysia

ALERT MH370 report: 'There were no behavioural signs of social isolation, change in habits or interest, self-neglect, drug or alcohol abuse of the Captain, First Officer and the Cabin Crew' – @MOTMalaysia

BREAKING #MH370 interim report can read here:

ALERT Interim statement on the investigation into the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines MH370 released – @MOTMalaysia