About 30 seconds later entering the Vietnamese airspace, the plane disappeared from the radar suddenly. It was 01:21 in the morning. The Air Traffic Controller didn't notice this, but when they do, they thought that the plane had flown out of the range of their radar and had entered Vietnamese airspace. On the other hand, The Air Traffic Controller in Vietnam saw that the aircraft entered their airspace, but disappears suddenly. They tried to communicate with the plane but there was no response from the other side. After repeatedly trying for 18 minutes, The Vietnamese controllers contacted Kuala Lumpur about the issue. Generally in situations like these, Kuala Lumpur's Aeronautical Rescue Coordination Centre, should be informed under an hour about the disappearance of the plane. But 4 hours passed, an emergency response began. it was 6:32 in the morning. This was the time by when the aircraft should have landed in Beijing. But it never landed. Immediately, a search operation was called. The search operation began in the South China Sea as it was the aircraft's last known location. This search operation was an international effort. 34 ships and 28 aircrafts participated this rescue mission from 7 different countries, But there was no trace of the aircraft. On 12th March, it was reported that though the aircraft disappeared from the civilian radar, but a military radar spotted that aircraft that night. Surprisingly, according to this radar, the aircraft was last seen at 2:22 in the morning. But is wasn't located above the South China Sea. Rather it was near to the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Westward from Malaysia, above the Strait of Malacca. And according to this radar, this plane was flying North in the direction of the Andaman and Nicobar islands, The other way from Beijing. This news left everyone shocked. Where did this plane go? Did it fly towards the direction of India and crashed in the Himalayas or in Kazakhstan? Some more days later, a new piece of evidence was discovered from the satellite data. It was found that the the aircraft was automatically trying to communicate with a satellite. It is actually quite common for the widebody jets like the Boeing 777 they try to communicate with the the satellites often to make communication easier they automatically establish contact. It is the same as your phone trying to automatically connect to known WIFI. But the problem was that when this plane communicated with the satellite, it merely tried to log in trying to establish a connection. No data was transmitted about the location of the plane. The satellite was  simply aware that this plane tried to communicate. Nothing more about where the plane was found. 
                                      
                                          
                                  
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