article_snippet: At 12:41 a.m. local time on March 8, 2014, Malaysia Airlines MH370 took off from Kuala Lumpur International Airport, en route to Beijing.
article_snippet: Less than an hour later, the Boeing 777-200ER was flying over the South China Sea.
article_snippet: The search area widened, then shifted off the coast of Western Australia, when The search area was determined through careful analysis of a series of messages or "handshakes" between the plane and an Inmarsat telecommunications satellite, that MH370 eventually turned south, and flew for hours into the Indian Ocean.
article_snippet: Search ships are focused along the so-called 7th arc, or "partial handshake," where international investigators believe the plane ran out of fuel.
article_snippet: But Michael Exner, an engineer with decades of experience in the mobile satellite communications industry, says the data "accurately and unambiguously" shows MH370 went down near the 7th arc.