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Where does the 14:15 GMT come from for the last contact?  Malaysia Airways via Kiev ATC? --[[User:Two Dogs|Two Dogs]] ([[User talk:Two Dogs|talk]]) 19:15, 17 August 2014 (IST)
 
Where does the 14:15 GMT come from for the last contact?  Malaysia Airways via Kiev ATC? --[[User:Two Dogs|Two Dogs]] ([[User talk:Two Dogs|talk]]) 19:15, 17 August 2014 (IST)
 
:Looks to me like they are intended as approximations but that that GMT has also been confused with BST which is 1 hour ahead. It does indicate a certain shoddiness in the map production though. It's to avoid precisely that confusion that I have been careful to specify UTC on the [[Malaysia Airlines Flight 17/Timeline|timeline events]] --[[User:Peter|Peter P]] ([[User talk:Peter|talk]]) 19:49, 17 August 2014 (IST)
 
:Looks to me like they are intended as approximations but that that GMT has also been confused with BST which is 1 hour ahead. It does indicate a certain shoddiness in the map production though. It's to avoid precisely that confusion that I have been careful to specify UTC on the [[Malaysia Airlines Flight 17/Timeline|timeline events]] --[[User:Peter|Peter P]] ([[User talk:Peter|talk]]) 19:49, 17 August 2014 (IST)
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::Oops - even more shoddiness. The Take-off time ''number'' IS correct - in UTC - but the 'Last-contact' number is not --[[User:Peter|Peter P]] ([[User talk:Peter|talk]]) 20:10, 17 August 2014 (IST)

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Where does the 14:15 GMT come from for the last contact? Malaysia Airways via Kiev ATC? --Two Dogs (talk) 19:15, 17 August 2014 (IST)

Looks to me like they are intended as approximations but that that GMT has also been confused with BST which is 1 hour ahead. It does indicate a certain shoddiness in the map production though. It's to avoid precisely that confusion that I have been careful to specify UTC on the timeline events --Peter P (talk) 19:49, 17 August 2014 (IST)
Oops - even more shoddiness. The Take-off time number IS correct - in UTC - but the 'Last-contact' number is not --Peter P (talk) 20:10, 17 August 2014 (IST)