Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! === Departure === At 00:42 MYT, Flight 370 took off from runway 32R,<ref name="Interim report-March 2015" />{{Rp|1}} and was cleared by [[air traffic control]] (ATC) to climb to [[flight level]] 180{{efn|name=Flight level|Aircraft altitude is given as feet above sea level and measured, at higher altitudes, by air pressure, which [[Atmospheric pressure#Altitude variation|declines]] as altitude above sea level increases. Using a [[International Standard Atmosphere|standard sea level pressure]] and formula, the nominal altitude of a given air pressure can be determined—referred to as the "pressure altitude". A [[flight level]] is the pressure altitude in hundreds of feet. For example, flight level 350 corresponds to an altitude where air pressure is {{convert|179|mmHg|abbr=on}}, which is nominally {{convert|35000|ft|abbr=on|sigfig=3}} but does not indicate the true altitude.}}—approximately {{convert|18000|ft|sigfig=2}}<!-- since result is 4 digits, using 3 significant figures seems too precise. 18000 ft=5486.4m...so using 5500m as opposed to 5490 is not a huge difference -->—on a direct path to navigational [[waypoint]] IGARI (located at {{coord|6|56|12|N|103|35|6|E|type:landmark_scale:4000000|name=Waypoint IGARI}}). Voice analysis has determined that the first officer communicated with ATC while the flight was on the ground and that the Captain communicated with ATC after departure.<ref name="Interim report-March 2015" />{{Rp|21}} Shortly after departure, the flight was transferred from the airport's ATC to "Lumpur Radar" air traffic control on [[Airband|frequency]] 132.6 MHz. ATC over peninsular Malaysia and adjacent waters is provided by the Kuala Lumpur [[Area Control Centre]] (ACC); Lumpur Radar is the name of the frequency [[Air traffic control#En route, center, or area control|used for ''en route'' air traffic]].<ref name=FIR-Malaysia /> At 00:46, Lumpur Radar cleared Flight 370 to flight level 350{{efn|name=Flight level}}—approximately {{convert|35000|ft|abbr=on|sigfig=3}}. At 01:01, Flight 370's crew reported to Lumpur Radar that they had reached flight level 350, which they confirmed again at 01:08.<ref name="Interim report-March 2015" />{{Rp|1–2}}<ref name="Preliminary report">{{cite news|title=Documents: Preliminary report on missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370|url=http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2014/04/world/malaysia-flight-documents/|publisher=Malaysia Department of Civil Aviation|via=CNN|access-date=22 October 2014|archive-date=1 May 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140501200705/http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2014/04/world/malaysia-flight-documents/|url-status=live}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page