Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370
July 20, 2019 Grace Lwanga
Welcome.
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 was a Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777. It disappeared (less than an hour after takeoff) at night on 8 March 2014 while flying from Kuala Lumpur International Airport, Malaysia, to Beijing Capital International Airport in China. It deviated westwards from its planned flight path and crossed the Malay Peninsula. The aircraft was carrying 12 Malaysian crew members and 227 passengers from 15 nations.
In a similar incidence (in March 1981), an aircraft flying from Scots Town direct to Sum burgh (in Scotland, U.K.) deviated 50 n.m. Eastwards from its planned flight path due to the DGI transport wander error. It was rescued back on course and no lives were lost.
Many reports on this accident have been given by aviation experts. It is a great pity that the airplane has so far not been located.
A new approach uses the theory of aircraft Dead Reckon (DR) gyroscopic instruments. The DGI (which is suspected to have affected the Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 Airliner) is described great detail.
The Nav. Plot shows an incident caused by a wrong DGI rotor speed. The required track was from Scots Town to Sumburgh (in Scotland, U.K.) along the dashed line. Since the electrical connection to the DGI was incorrect, the new rotor speed was not 1200 r.p.m. Therefore, the DR track was not on a great circle. The aircraft was rescued 50 n.m. off- track following the constant potential vorticity curve.
OUR REFERENCE:
Thank you for reading this BLOG. Most of the material used in the blog post has been taken from the book called: “METEOROLOGY for Airplane NAVIGATION (INSTRUMENTS)” by Grace Lwanga.
pages 37 to 65.
https://www.amazon.com/Mr.-Grace-Nsubuga-Lwanga/e/B07KDJ91W2
METEOROLOGY for Airplane NAVIGATION (INSTRUMENTS)
This book is suitable for ground school studies in Commercial Pilots License (CPL) and Air Transport Pilots License (ATPL).
As a Ground School Instructor, the author successfully used the material in the book to increase the pass rate of his students in the Navigation (Instruments) exams of 1984.
The book consists of the following general contents: 193 Pages; 11 Chapters; 4 Tables; 33 Diagrams; 33 Figures; and 14 Problem solutions.
The problems are selected from the British Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) examination past papers.
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Also, see CAA Aviation Safety Information CATC (81)94 3/81.