Malaysia Airlines Flight 370

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.

The following Directional Gyro Indicator (DGI) sample question is taken from the text book called

“Meteorology for Navigation (Instruments)” by Grace Lwanga, 1984. This book gives the theory of aircraft Dead Reckon (DR) gyroscopic instruments including the DGI (which affected the Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 Airliner).

How to open the file:

1. Click the Link (given at the end of this list)

2. Download the zip file

3. Click Right (on the downloaded zip file)

4. Click “extract all….” menu item

5. Open the Word file called “Sample Question MH370 ft.dotx”

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6NfeQlePOF1UXdHSzNBMGZVejg/view?usp=sharing