Originally Posted by
philipat
Perhaps, yes. The times are all LOCAL not UTC. So remember that Vietnam time is one hour BEHIND Malaysia time (Even though further East).
The other explanation I have read is that
It later emerged that Subang Air Traffic Control had lost contact with the aircraft at 01:22 and notified Malaysia Airlines at 02:40.
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Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Crash: Malaysia B772 over Gulf of Thailand on Mar 8th 2014, aircraft missing