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Timeline of response

Date (UTC)	Event
7 March	Malaysia Airlines confirms it lost contact with Flight 370 at 18:40 UTC (02:40 MYT, 8 March), later corrected to 17:30 UTC (01:30 MYT)
8 March	An international search and rescue mission mobilised focusing on South China Sea
9 March	The search area expanded as the aircraft might have turned back west.
9 March	Two passengers are found to have been travelling on stolen passports.
10 March	Ten Chinese satellites are now deployed in the search.
	Oil slicks on the surface of the South China Sea tested negative for jet fuel
	Malaysia Airlines announces it will give US$5,000 to the relatives of each passenger
11 March	Interpol say that two false identities not linked to the disappearance
11 March	China activates the International Charter on Space and Major Disasters
12 March	Chinese satellite images of possible debris from Flight 370 in the South China Sea at 6.7°N 105.63°E released, but surface search finds no wreckage
	Malaysian government receives Inmarsat info that Flight 370 pinged for hours after ACARS went off-line
	Chinese government criticises Malaysia for inadequate answers regarding Flight 370
13 March	US hints search should be expanded to the Indian Ocean
14 March	Investigation concludes that Flight 370 was still under the control of somebody after it lost contact with ground control
14 March	MAS retires the MH370/MH371 flight numbe r pair
15 March	Malaysia announces last satellite transmission from Flight 370 refocuses search along two loci – north and south
15 March	Malaysian police search the homes of both of the aircraft's pilots
16 March	The number of countries involved in the search and rescue operation reaches 25
17 March	Australia leads search from Sumatra to the southern Indian Ocean
18 March	China starts a search operation in a northern region of its own territory. Australia still conduct their main aerial search through waters at Cocos Islands and Christmas Island (close to Indonesia), but also conduct their first aerial search of the southern Indian Ocean, with a single US P-8 Poseidon aircraft searching the waters west and southwest of Perth.
19 March	FBI works to restore logfiles deleted from the flight simulator in the captain's home.
20 March	Aircraft and ships dispatched to locate two objects seen by an Australian satellite on 16 March, in the southern Indian Ocean at 44°03′02″S91°13′27″E; twenty-six nations are involved in search
21 March	Search focuses on an area 3,000 kilometres (1,900 mi) southwest of Perth, Western Australia
22 March	A Chinese satellite image taken on 18 March shows a possible object measuring 22.5 by 13 metres (74 by 43 ft) at 44°57′30″S 90°13′40″E, approximately 3,170 kilometres (1,970 mi) west of Perth and 120 kilometres (75 mi) from the earlier sighting, but did not confirm the object's nature.
24 March	An Australian search aircraft spots two objects at sea, 1,550 miles (2,490 km) southwest of Perth, one of them a large orange rectangular object.
24 March	The Prime Minister of Malaysia announces that Flight 370 is assumed to have gone down in the southern Indian Ocean, and Malaysia Airlines states to families that it assumes "beyond reasonable doubt" there are no survivors.
25 March	The search area is narrowed to the southern tip of the southern search corridor; the northern search corridor and the northern half of the southern search area are definitively ruled out.
26 March	French satellite images, captured on 23 March by Airbus Defence and Space, show 122 possible pieces of debris, between 1 and 23 meters long, within a 76-by-78-kilometre (47 by 48 mi) area of the southern Indian Ocean at 44°41′24″S 90°25′19.20″E, 44°41′38.45″S 90°29′31.20″E and 44°40′10.20″S 90°36′25.20″E.
27 March	The search area narrows to roughly 76,000 square kilometres (29,000 sq mi). Thai satellite images, captured on 24 March by Thaichote, show 300 floating objects ranging between 2 m and 15 m, about 200 kilometres (120 mi) south of the previous French images.Japanese satellite images, captured on 26 March, show 10 squared floating objects, also about 200 kilometres (120 mi) south of the previous French images. Five ships from Australia and China are actively engaged.
28 March	Updated analysis of data results in the search shifting to a new 319,000-square-kilometre (123,000 sq mi) area, 1,850 kilometres (1,150 mi) west of Perth, which is situated 1,100 kilometres (680 mi) northeast of the previous search area.

Why Do Airplane Accidents Happen?

The reasons for airplane crashes include:

·         Engine failure

·         Equipment failure

·         Poor maintenance of mechanical equipment

·         Instrument failure

·         On-board computer or software defects

·         Pilot error

·         Air traffic control error

·         Collision with another aircraft

·         Fuel tank explosion

   Ice accumulation on aircraft

List of accidents and incidents involving commercial aircraft

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_accidents_and_incidents_involving_commercial_aircraft

Recent accidents

http://www.planecrashinfo.com/recent.htm

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1997 8.6 Korea Airlines Boeing 747 crashes

2013 7.10 America Los Angeles

1985 8.12 Japan 123

2009 1.15 America US Airways Fight 1549

2009 6.1 France 447

2007 8.20 Taiwan 737

Plane Crashes: 5 Things You Didn't Know

1- Surviving a plane crash is good for you

At the American Psychological Association’s annual convention in 1999, researchers from Virginia’s Old Dominion University presented some unique findings: Plane crash survivors were healthier, psychologically, and lived with substantially less anxiety, depression and post-traumatic stress than travelers who had never been involved in an aviation accident.

The key seemed to be a question of control; to what extent did the survivor believe they had some control over the situation — even if that control was limited to what they did following impact? The greater the perception of control, the healthier the survivor will be. These people also tended not to need extensive counseling following the accident.

2- The first 90 seconds of a crash is known as "golden time"

According to the airline industry, what you do during "golden time" dictates whether or not you at least have a shot at surviving a plane crash. They frown on panicking — no surprises there — and stress quick, decisive actions to get yourself as far away from the plane as you possibly can. Rummaging through your carry-on to spare your BlackBerry, also frowned upon….

According to witnesses, when their plane went down last September,Travis Barker and Adam Goldstein were frantically tearing their fiery clothes off, and this likely prevented their burns from being more extensive. However, this says nothing about the damage on the inside: Smoke inhalation deprives your tissues of oxygen, the heat sears the surfaces of your upper airway, and toxic chemicals trash your lungs.

Check out a few more things you didn't know about plane crashes...

3- Planes routinely crash by running out of fuel

This unacceptable and totally egregious event goes by a sickeningly perfect name in aviation: fuel starvation, generally a consequence of leaks or extensive holding patterns. Avianca Flight 52 is an infamous example; a misunderstanding prevented air traffic controllers at JFK from grasping the crew’s urgency. The craft lost all engines and crashed on Long Island.

Unfortunately, the fate of Avianca 52 has already been shared by at least five other aircraft this decade alone.

4- Survival rates improve when the pilot ditches

The chief reason your survival rate spikes? Not what you might think: Sure, ditching is performed under somewhat controlled conditions and it trumps a nosedive, but survival rates for passengers are over 50% in these cases because ditching is an emergency procedure for which pilots and passengers are all offered training prior to every flight — the 2-minute drill mimed by the cabin crew. You know, that thing so many of us ignore.

Granted, the crew rarely does it with any enthusiasm, but they are attempting to communicate to us the means by which we can raise our chances of survival — why would anyone choose to ignore that?

5- There is a 0.00001% chance your plane will crash

One last thing you didn’t know about plane crashes is the figure Professor Jeff Rosenthal has arrived at to determine your chances of surviving your next flight: 99.9999815%. Not bad.

People enjoy dreaming up these odds, but their goal can’t be to turn aerophobes into aerophiles. In fact, the better the odds seem to get, the more aerophobes stand their ground. Why? Because these figures fail to address the character and complexity of a phobia. After all, phobias are partly defined by their irrationality.

Still, they can be tantalizing. For example, the odds of dying in a plane crash are equal to quadruplets being born — but not just any quadruplets,naturally conceived quadruplets. And not just any naturally conceived quadruplets, but naturally conceived identical quadruplets.

Forget the conception part — when’s the last time you even saw a set of identical quadruplets?

How to survive a plane crash:

1.Read the Safety Card and Listen to the Flight Attendants

You’ve Only Got 90 Seconds to Get Out

The reality is that it takes, on average, just 90 seconds for a fire to burn through the plane’s aluminum fuselage and consume everything and everyone in it. If that sounds scary, it should; you need to be motivated to get your rear end out of the plane!

Remember the Plus 3/Minus 8 Rule

Be Fit

Not only can being out of shape reduce your chances of survival, it could also put other people’s lives at risk because they have to wait for you to exit safely. Hold-ups at the exit due to passengers having trouble deplaning has caused many unnecessary deaths.

Put on Your Oxygen Mask as Soon as It Drops

irplane cabins are pressurized so you can breathe normally at 30,000 feet. When a cabin loses pressure, there’s so little air at high altitudes that getting oxygen to your bloodstream is next to impossible. That’s where oxygen masks come in. They pump pure oxygen into your nose and mouth so that you can get the air you need.
Assume Brace Position

Forget Your Carry On Luggage, Remember the Kids

Believe it or not, you need to be reminded to forget your carry-on luggage! It will slow you down and block others’ escape, and it may injure you or someone else if you try to get down the very steep inflatable slides with it.

In your rush to get out of the plane, don’t forget your kids. That actually happens. Your brain does stupid things in disasters. Keep reminding yourself, “I have kids. I have kids. I have kids.”

Fly in Bigger Planes if Possible

larger planes have more energy absorption in a crash which means you’re subjected to less deadly force, and that may equate to a better survival rate.

Remember the Five Row Rule

Overcome the Normalcy Bias With an Action Plan

it’s important to have an action plan is that there’s a good chance you won’t have too much assistance from the flight crew. One study found that 45 percent of the flight attendants in survivable crashes are incapacitated in some way. You need to be ready to take action without direction from anyone.

Here are some useful sources which can enrich knowledge.

WHY AIRPLANE CRASHES HAPPEN

http://whatsbestnext.com/2009/06/why-plane-crashes-happen/

Plane Crashes: 5 Things You Didn't Know

http://www.askmen.com/entertainment/special_feature_200/223_special_feature.html

RECENT ACCIDENTS

http://www.planecrashinfo.com/recent.htm

air crash investigation

http://natgeotv.com/uk/air-crash-investigation

How to Survive a Plane Crash: 10 Tips That Could Save Your Life

http://www.artofmanliness.com/2013/07/30/how-to-survive-a-plane-crash-10-tips-that-could-save-your-life/

How Long Can You Survive in the Sea?

http://www.livescience.com/44060-how-long-can-you-survive-at-sea.html

plane crashes and incidents caught on camera

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Svz7UquWf0E

Global Pulse- Airplane Crashes: who's to blame? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QS8YFPNmcYM

List of accidents and incidents involving commercial aircraft http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_accidents_and_incidents_involving_commercial_aircraft

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