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Something I find curious and may be significant. I noticed that the timeline for the flight is often abbreviated, but when looking at a complete account of the flight, there is a considerable, unexplained gap.

12.40 am - Flight MH370, a Boeing 777-200 carrying 227 passengers from 14 nationalities along with 12 crew members, took off from the Malaysian capital, Kuala Lumpur.

1.22 am - The plane was meant to transfer to Vietnam's Ho Chi Minh air traffic control but never appeared.

2.41 am - Malaysian air traffic control in Subang lost contact with the plane, some two hours after it left Kuala Lumpur.

It's the 1:22 am entry that's often left out. With it there, it appears the flight crew never checked in or transferred control, around 40 mins. Into the flight.

Then, at 2:41 am, an hour and nineteen minutes later, the plane is lost on radar.. Unless I'm missing something, there appears to be a considerable amount of time, nearly an hour and a half, when the flight is uncommunative yet in the air. It is during this gap when the plane seems to turn back, lose altitude, and disappear. That doesn't appear to be a sudden catastrophe. Am I way off on this?