People and Organizations
This is an alphabetic list of people and organizations who are relevant to the MH370 Case.
| Person or Organisation | Relevance to MH370 |
|---|---|
| AIREON | the Global Satellite Tracking provider since 2019, a technology supposed to prevent another MH370 case |
| AMSA Australian Maritime Safety Authority | involved in the Indian Ocean search operations |
| Chris ASHTON | INMARSAT expert, main author of [A2] |
| ATSB Australian Transport Safety Bureau | managed the Indian Ocean search operations |
| Byron BAILEY | experienced B777 captain involved in MH370 research |
| Florence de CHANGY | author, MH370 investigator, convinced that the flight did not end in the Southern Indian Ocean |
| Gary COLLEDGE | INMARSAT expert, co-author of [A2] |
| Cristian Emil CONSTANTINESCU | aerospace engineering professor, co-author of [A1], [A3], [B15], [A27] University Politehnica of Bucharest, Faculty of Aerospace Engineering |
| Samuel DAVEY | expert, co-author of [A5] |
| Mark DICKINSON | INMARSAT expert, co-author of [A2] |
| Blaine GIBSON | MH370 sleuth also known as the debris hunter because of his discoveries |
| Richard GODFREY | MH370 sleuth who promoted the weak signal theory, founder of the Independent Group, author of www.mh370search.com [B14] |
| Neil GORDON | expert, co-author of [A5] |
| Fariq Abdul HAMID | copilot of MH370 |
| Simon HARDY | experienced pilot involved in the MH370 research |
| Andrew HENEEN | author of charts on MH370 flight and search operations |
| Ean HIGGINS | author of [C2] senior editor on The Australian and has led the international coverage of the MH370 mystery; he disappeared himself in 2020 |
| Ian HOLLAND | expert, co-author of [A5], author of [A13] |
| Angus HOUSTON | air chief marshal, head of JACC |
| Simon HRADECKY | software developer, founder of Aviation Herald, one of the most important aeronautical safety references [B11] |
| ICAO International Civil Aviation Organization | international aviation lawmaker promoting the Global Satellite Tracking System |
| IG Independent Group | group of experts and journalists doing work in MH370 |
| INMARSAT | British satellite communications company, provided the only data during the unknown MH370 flight, it was done very early in the crisis allowing more teams to engage in the search |
| JACC Joint Agency Coordination Centre | an Australian government agency which was established on 30 March 2014 to coordinate search and recovery operations for MH370 |
| István Barna JAKAB | aerospace engineer, co-author of [A3], at the time master student of the University Politehnica of Bucharest, Faculty of Aerospace Engineering |
| JON Journal of Navigation | Cambridge University Press journal of the RIN; early publisher of relevant scientific papers [A2] and [A3] |
| Mike KEANE | experienced MH370 pilot involved in MH370 research |
| Jean Luc MARCHAND | MH370 investigator, air traffic controller, advocate of manual ditching theory |
| MH370 Flight Path Reconstruction Group | experts group providing advisory to ATSB, with findings published in [A5] and [B2] |
| Octavian Thor PLETER | author and aerospace engineering professor, main author of [B13], [A1], [A3], [B15], [A26], [A27] keynote speaker on MH370, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Faculty of Aerospace Engineering |
| Azharuddin Abdul RAHMAN | chief of the Malaysian civil aviation at the time of the event; he quitted in 2018 after a report into the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 found failures of the Malaysian air traffic control |
| RIN Royal Institute of Navigation | institution who promoted scientific research in solving MH370 |
| Mark RUTTEN | expert, co-author of [A5] |
| Zaharie Ahmad SHAH | captain of the MH370 flight, who allegedly hijacked the airplane |
| Alan SHUSTER BRUCE | INMARSAT expert, co-author of [A2] |
| Duncan STEEL | space scientist and author, founder of duncansteel.com with a dedicated section on MH370 [B12] |
| Larry VANCE | aviation expert and author of [C1], member of SWR 111 accident investigation team |
| Jason WILLIAMS | expert, co-author of [A5] |
| Jeff WISE | journalist featured in the Nextflix MH370 Docuseries [C9] |
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