Aviation industry website Flightglobals operations and safety editor David Learmount, an aviation safety expert, said that it was extraordinary that the pilots did not make a distress call, and drew comparisons with the loss of Air France Flight 447 over the Atlantic in 2009, stating This is an historical comparison and could be a coincidence. It also happened in the early hours of morning, after midnight in the dead of night, and went missing without a call from the pilots. The search for the missing jetliner located oil slicks in the Gulf of Thailand, about 90 miles south of Vietnams Thổ Chu Island.[28] The gulf covers about 320,000 square kilometres (120,000 sq mi) and its mean depth is 45 metres (150 ft), and the maximum depth only 80 metres (260 ft).
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