Wondering what this is about? These are the long awaited satellite communication logs from flight MH370 with Inmarsat. Basically, the raw data that indicated the likely crash in the Indian Ocean off Australia, and thus gave an area to search. CNN has some info @ <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/27/world/asia/malaysia-missing-plane/index.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/27/world/asia/malaysia-missing-pl...</a><p>There have been all sorts of theories about the math and data. So we finally have the data and others can peak into it. Although, I suspect we are going to see some crazy new theories now. Here are just some of the links I found while researching the topic and what to do with this raw data:<p><a href="http://www.duncansteel.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.duncansteel.com/</a><p><a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/MH370/comments/218i36/how_the_satellite_company_inmarsat_tracked_down/" rel="nofollow">http://www.reddit.com/r/MH370/comments/218i36/how_the_satell...</a><p><a href="http://physicsbuzz.physicscentral.com/2014/03/how-did-inmarsat-really-find-flight.html" rel="nofollow">http://physicsbuzz.physicscentral.com/2014/03/how-did-inmars...</a><p><a href="http://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/2623/how-did-the-aaib-assist-in-locating-mh370" rel="nofollow">http://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/2623/how-did-the...</a>
Extracted to a couple of CSV files (but didn't have time for the appendices): <a href="https://github.com/BigDataMalaysia/MH370_Inmarsat" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/BigDataMalaysia/MH370_Inmarsat</a><p>Watch out for errors.
They have info on the aircraft for some 8 hours.<p>MH370 was a 777-200ER. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysia_Airlines_Flight_370" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysia_Airlines_Flight_370</a><p>That gives it a range of 7725 nautical miles. <a href="http://www.boeing.com/boeing/commercial/777family/pf/pf_200product.page" rel="nofollow">http://www.boeing.com/boeing/commercial/777family/pf/pf_200p...</a><p>Cruise speed is 0.84 mach at 35000 feet which is around 500mph.<p>That's only 4000 miles of the 7000 mile range.<p>If this is the full log including some time on the ground it would seem like they didn't necessarily run out of fuel.<p>Kuala Lumpar to Beijing is about 2700 miles so I suppose they would probably carry enough fuel for the flight plus some reserve. So the fly-til-empty theory is still plausible.