Thereafter Inmarsat, a satellite telecommunications company, picked up occasional electronic ‘pings’ from the aircraft. That is the point at which de Changy starts taking issue with an official narrative which she dismisses as a ‘fabrication’.Īccording to that narrative, Malaysian military radar had spotted a plane climbing and descending steeply as it flew back across the Malay peninsula, veered up the Malacca Strait and round the northern tip of Sumatra into the Indian Ocean. He also advanced the theory that these movements were ‘consistent with deliberate action by someone on the plane’. He said that an aircraft believed (but not confirmed) to be MH370 had been detected suddenly changing course after entering Vietnamese airspace. Then, on 15 March, Najib Razak, Malaysia’s then-prime minister, announced startling new findings. The search effort beginsįor a week, scores of ships and planes searched the South China Sea for traces of the missing plane. Seven years later, incredibly, its fate remains unknown.
On a clear night, in good flying conditions, one of the world’s safest aircraft, operated by an airline with an excellent safety record, disappeared in a region full of civilian and military radar stations and heavily monitored by satellites. A minute later the plane’s transponder – its link to air traffic control – cut off.Īlmost immediately its Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System (ACARS), which transmits technical information about flights, ceased working too. Normal procedure is that the aircraft should then declare its presence to Vietnamese air traffic control but no call came. At 01:19, as it left Malaysian airspace and crossed into Vietnam’s, Zaharie Ahmad Shah, the captain, radioed back the last words heard from the flight: ‘Good night Malaysian Three Seven Zero.’ Five were children.Īt 01:01 MH370 reached its cruising altitude of 35,000ft as it flew north over the South China Sea. They included Chinese labourers and package- holiday tourists going home, a group of calligraphers, a stuntman who was working on a new Netflix series, and 20 employees of a US electronics company. On board the Boeing 777 were two pilots, 10 flight attendants and 227 passengers of 14 different nationalities. In the Statistics Mode player can view his results, see detailed report of his and other units’ firing performance, hits and damages.Nobody disputes the initial facts – not even Florence de Changy, a French journalist whose new book on the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 is about to revive the greatest mystery in aviation history.Īt 00:42 on 8 March 2014, MH370 took off from Kuala Lumpur International Airport bound for Beijing. Each battle brings experience points and (probably) awards to player's crew and his forces after the battle. Player can complete tasks either by commanding a single tank (tank platoon) or by commanding other units in the Tactical Map mode. Ambush, and break out of encirclements.Player will be assigned variety of tasks: Each tank has interactive cockpit, where player can perform basic operations using a mouse: select sight, move between the crew stations, stowed position, work with the tank equipment and select the shell to load. Player can drive his tank from the driver’s station, fire from the gunner’s station, and command his tank crew and whole unit from the commander’s station. Angola – full-fledged mobile warfare involving all types of troops.ĭepending on operation, player will have either Soviet medium tank T-62 or US main battle tank M60A1.Iran – classic tank clashes with outnumbering enemy.Afghanistan – first of all, destroy enemy fire points and support your motor-rife troops.The goal is to win battles in any of the four operations by commanding tank units of either the Soviet, Iranian, Iraqi or Angolan army.Įach of the operations dictates its own strategies: The game has no fixed missions, player makes his own game which dramatically increases replayability. Tactical: player gets into actual battle, controls his tank and commands attached units.Operational: player can choose the battlefield area, supply and reinforce his units and repair his vehicles.The game is composed of two equally important parts:
About This Game Steel Armor: Blaze of War is realistic tank simulator with tactical elements.