Malaysian authorities said that based on its last communication, everything appeared to be normal on board Flight 370 minutes before it went missing over the South China sea.
“All right, roger that” a pilot replied to a radio message from Malaysian air control.
Malaysian officials revealed the plane’s last communication at a news conference held in Beijing for relatives of the 154 Chinese who are among the missing passengers.
As the plane reached the boundary between Malaysian and Vietnamese airspace, Saturday the Malaysian air control announced it was handing over to Ho Chi Minh City Control.
One of the pilots also replied, “All right, good night.”
Moments later, the plane, at cruising altitude, around 35,000 feet, dropped from radar March 7 with no signal from pilots,
The plane was carrying 239 people.
Malaysia’s air force chief, Rodzali Daud, said Wednesday that an “unidentified plot” was seen on military radar intermittently for around 45 minutes after Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 vanished at 1:30 am on Saturday.
He said that radar trail ended at a point over the sea, far west of its planned route.
“We are trying to corroborate with all the other radars, including the civil radar,” Daud told reporters.
The updates came as an oil rig worker claimed that he saw a plane go down off the south-east coast of Vietnam.
In an email sent to his employer, the worker describes seeing what he believes to be the missing Boeing 777 burning — in one piece — at high altitude, flying perpendicular to the standard plane routes that cross over the area. “I believe I saw the Malaysian Airlines plane come down,” the man writes, according to an email obtained and tweeted by ABC News anchor Bob Woodruff. “The timing is right.”
According to Woodruff, Vietnamese officials confirmed they received the email, but found nothing in the water.