UK-based company Inmarsat solved the mystery of the final course taken by flight MH370 – the Malaysia Airlines passenger jet that disappeared without trace two weeks ago – by a revolutionary use of satellite data.
The analysis by the UK-based company, a London-based operator of communications satellites, and UK air accident investigators, proved conclusively that the last signal from the aircraft came from a remote part of the southern Indian Ocean.
Najib Razak, Malaysia’s prime minister, said on the basis of this information investigators had concluded that Flight MH370 which set off from Kuala Lumpur bound northeast for Beijing ended up crashing into the sea 2,500 km south west of Perth.