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<h2 style="text-align: center;">Timeline of events involving air traffic controllers in response to the in-flight diversion of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370</h2>
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<h5 style="text-align: center;">From 01:27:00 MYT to 06:50:22 MYT  {{Day 001}}<br />
(1722 UTC to 2250:22 UTC {{Day -001}})</h5>
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<h3 style="margin-left:4em;">Background</h3>
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<h5>Malaysian Air Traffic Control Primary Radar Observations</h5>
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<p>This section of the Timeline details the sequence of events as air traffic controllers struggled to comprehend that MH370 did not continue towards Beijing through Vietnamese airspace.</p>
<p>However, while the air traffic controllers were wondering where the aircraft was and making phone calls and asking questions the evidence of a turnback was in front of them on their radar screens. The 'blip' that represented the 'missing' aircraft was captured by civilian primary radar.</p>
<p>Like the military observations there were periods of actual data, periods of 'coasting' - where the radar interpolates a track between actual radar returns - and periods of interrupted data. This is shown in the adjacent diagram. </p>
<p>A 'blip' is a spot of light on a radar screen indicating the position of a detected aircraft.</p>
<p>Overall, the civilian primary radar observations of an aircraft believed to be MH370 after flight diversion extended from 01:30:37 MYT to 01:44:52 MYT.  The periods covered by the civilian radar observations provide the background to other events during the developing emergency.</p>
<p>The aircraft in each radar track is identified by a number assigned by the radar system. For primary radar each code number has the prefix letter P (P = Primary). Even though the number is different for each observation, it is believed to be the same aircraft.</p>
<p>There were four significant observations by primary civilian radar, coded <html><a href="#P3362">P3362</a></html>, <html><a href="#P3401">P3401</a></html>, <html><a href="#P3415">P3415</a></html> and <html><a href="#P3426">P3426</a></html>, which show that MH370 tracked west across Malaysia until it was south of Penang. However, the Kuala Lumpur air traffic controllers did not notice or respond to the appearance of a strayed or unidentified aircraft within their area of responsibility.</p>
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<h3 style="margin-left:4em;">Last Communications With MH370</h3>
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