article_snippet: MH370 were characterized by confusion and chaos, as air traffic controllers struggled to comprehend the situation and radar operators failed to take notice, according to data contained in an interim report.
article_snippet: The first sign that something was wrong with flight Flight MH370 came after plane failed to check in with Vietnamese Air Traffic Controllers after leaving Malaysian airspace.
article_snippet: the confusion only got worse after Malaysia Airlines mistakenly told Kuala Lumpur Air Traffic Controllers they could see the flight somewhere over Cambodia.
article_snippet: It took an hour and a half to clear this up, after Malaysia Airlines admitted to controllers they were only looking at the projected flight track.
article_snippet: After the air traffic controllers lost contact with MH370, the plane continued to fly within the range of multiple radar systems belonging to four different countries.
article_snippet: And Thailand "did not pay much attention," since MH370's flight path did not fall within Thailand borders.
article_snippet: Malaysian military radar tracked the flight for an additional hour, including Malaysian military radar turn back across the Malay Peninsula.
article_snippet: CNN approached Malaysia's Ministry of Defence for comment but is yet to receive a response .
article_snippet: Another working document notes that MH370's turn back might have been discovered much earlier, if the military and non-military agencies had coordinated better.
article_snippet: It's impossible to know if a speedier response from air traffic controllers, or more immediate access to radar data, would have changed the course of events for MH370.
article_snippet: But MH370 would have provided authorities with more time, either to track the flight or to search the ocean before the batteries died in the emergency locator beacons.