MAS to Investigate Why MH132 Went the Wrong Route

28th Dec 2015

Two years after flight MH370, going from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing went off its route and eventually disappeared from the radar, Malaysia Airlines faced a similar problem when another of its aircraft, MH132 also followed the wrong route while going from Auckland to the Malaysian capital.

Learning from their experience, the airline said on Sunday that it had launched an investigation which should determine why this happened.

Wrong Flight Plans Given to Auckland’s Air Traffic Control

MAS issued a statement during the weekend in which it said it had “inadvertently provided different flight plans to the crew and the Air Traffic Control center in Auckland.

The statement from Malaysia Airlines said:

On December 24th 2015 our flight MH132 from Auckland to Kuala Lumpur was given the latest flight plan by the airline’s Operations Dispatch Centre (ODC) whilst Auckland’s Air Traffic Control (ATC) was inadvertently given an earlier flight plan.

It continued:

Both routes were following an approved flight path and the aircraft had enough fuel for both routes. The safety of both passengers and crew were never compromised at any time. Malaysia Airlines is currently conducting its investigation in the flight plan submission. Safety is of the utmost priority for Malaysia Airlines and it adheres very strictly to all safety procedures and processes.

The reports claim that, eight minutes into the flight, the plane’s pilot realized the aircraft’s trajectory headed further south and they were flying in direction of Melbourne and not Kuala Lumpur.

 In March 2014, Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, carrying 239 people, went off the radar as it was traveling from KL to Beijing. The aircraft has not yet been found, despite a search for it in the southern Indian Ocean going on for nearly a year now, with Malaysian, Australian and Chinese governments all involved.

The search for MH370, Malaysian authorities said last week, should be concluded in June 2016.

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