Title: MH370 Burst Frequency Offset Analysis and Implications on Descent Rate at End-of-Flight,
Abstract: Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 veered off course unexpectedly during a
scheduled trip from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on the 7th of March 2014. MH370 was
tracked via military radar into the Malacca Straits and, after disappearing
from radar, was subsequently believed to have turned south towards the southern
Indian Ocean before crashing approximately 6 hours later. This article
discusses specifically the analysis of burst frequency offset (BFO) metadata
from the SATCOM messages. It is shown that the BFOs corresponding to the last
two SATCOM messages from the plane at 00:19:29Z and 00:19:37Z 8th March 2014
suggest that flight MH370 was rapidly descending and accelerating downwards
when message exchange with the ground station ceased.