A really good technical summary can found found here: http://www.airliners.net/aviation-forums/general_aviation/read.main/6024376/ http://www.airliners.net/avi

A really good technical summary can found found here: http://www.airliners.net/aviation-forums/general_aviation/read.main/6024376/ http://www.airliners.net/aviation-forums/general_aviation/re... I'll quote just a few lines of the summary here in case they move the location of the thread, and you need to search for it: **** SUMMARY PROVIDED BY MEMBER: rcair1 (Post 77 from thread 23) **** First - synopsis - The ship took off normally and headed on course to Beijing - The last ACARS transmission was about 01:07 local. This does not mean ACARS was shut off - just that was the last transmission of ACARS data (See ACARS below) - The last comms were a normal hand-off from Malaysia to Vietnam control at about 1:30 local - It was a normal 'good night' on the Malaysian side, but Vietnam was not contacted. [rest of summary deleted]