Malaysian ATC Supervisor Reportedly Slept on Night of MH370 Disappearance
According to conversation transcripts, the air traffic control supervisor at the Kuala Lumpur airport was asleep on the night of the flight's traceless disappearance.
An air traffic control supervisor at the Kuala Lumpur airport fell asleep during his shift on the night of the disappearance of the Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, the Sydney Morning Herald reported Monday.
According to the newspaper, a Malaysia Airlines staff member contacted an air traffic controller at Kuala Lumpur airport in the morning on March 8 asking whether they had successfully handed over responsibility for the MH370 plane to Vietnamese air traffic earlier in the night. The Kuala Lumpur controller said he had just started his shift and needed to wake up his supervisor to get the details on the flight.
"Aaaa … never mind laa I wake up my supervisor and ask him to check again, to go to the room and check what the last contact … all this thing laa," the controller told the Malaysia Airlines staff member, as quoted by the Sydney Morning Herald, which refers to conversation transcripts.
The conversation took place about four hours after the communications equipment of Boeing 777 (flight MH370) ceased operating, according to the newspaper.
Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, disappeared from radar screens a year ago, on March 8, 2014, less than an hour after takeoff. There were 227 passengers and 12 crew members on board.
Based on an analysis of aircraft performance data, experts suspect that the plane crashed in the southern Indian Ocean, but no trace of it has been found so far.
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