MAS blames software for 'MH370 in Cambodia' gaffe
Malaysia Airlines (MAS) has blamed the software that it used to track its aircraft for its erroneous report to air traffic controllers that MH370 was flying over Cambodian airspace about an hour after it went missing.
MAS explained that it made the deduction based on its ‘flight-following system’ which displayed the aircraft’s predicted position and not its actual location.
The system also does not alert MAS if there were anything abnormal, the airline said in a statement sent late last night, and will continue displaying the aircraft’s predicted flight path and location until told otherwise by pilots. In addition, although the system’s map showed that MH370 was supposed to be in Vietnamese airspace at the time, the map label for Vietnam was missing when zoomed in.
