Malaysia Airlines MH370 Report Details Missteps

Bethany Whitfield

Tuesday, March 10, 2015 at 09:01 PM ET

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Malaysia Airlines (9M-MRO) in 2011 (Photo by Laurent ERRERA via Wikipedia CC)

Key Takeaways:

The comprehensive report on Malaysia Airlines MH370's disappearance offers little new insight into the incident but extensively details the confusion and missteps by government agencies in its immediate aftermath.
It highlights significant delays in communication between air traffic controllers and airlines, leading to a substantial delay in launching search and rescue operations.
The report revealed that the flight data recorder's underwater locator beacon battery had expired over a year prior to the disappearance due to an unaddressed computer maintenance error.

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Exactly one year after Malaysia Airlines MH370 disappeared with 239 people aboard, sparking worldwide speculation about what happened to the Boeing 777, Malaysian investigators have released their first comprehensive report on the flight.

The 585-page report provides little new insight into the circumstances behind the disappearance but offers extensive details depicting the mass confusion and numerous missteps by government agencies made in the immediate aftermath of the event.