A communications satellite that receives

pesawat malaysia airlines Ashington, KOMPAS.COM - A communications satellite that receives electronic signals weak and irregular ( pings ) Malaysia Airlines plane that disappeared last Saturday. Ping data , provide the location , speed and altitude for at least five hours after the plane disappeared from radar screens civilians . It was the dikemukan number of officials involved in the investigation , according to the website of the Wall Street Journal on Thursday ( 03/13/2014 ) .

Last ping from outside the water , which is sent by a researcher at the normal cruising altitude . They refused to say exactly where the location of the transfer originated , the transfer also clear why it stopped . One possibility is that one of them is the delivery system has been disabled by a person on the plane.

Automatic Ping, or a series of efforts to employ operated with Inmarsat satellites , occur several times after the last known position Malaysia Airlines MH370 . This shows that, at least for a few hours , which contributes 777 239 people was still intact and not destroyed by accident , sabotage or an explosion.

Malaysia Airlines said the data are received . Meanwhile, Boeing , based in Chicago, was a comment , the Wall Street Journal.

If the plane is still in the air . During this time, the plane as far as 2,200 nautical miles ( 3,500 kilometers ) can fly from the end position is confirmed , ie , on the Gulf of Thailand, the sources

Meanwhile , the search for the aircraft has entered the seventh day was extended in the Indian Ocean. The White House spokesman Jay Carney said Thursday that new information is that the level of flight path must be Malaysia Airlines Kuala Lumpur - Beijing . The Americans said finding tickets from Malaysia can be extended to the Indian Ocean , far to the west of the position of the last contact.