Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 news

Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 (MH370/MAS370 was a scheduled international passenger flight from Kuala Lumpur International Airport to Beijing Capital International Airport. On 8 March 2014, Subang Air Traffic Control outside Kuala Lumpur reported that it had lost contact with the aircraft flying the route, a Boeing 777-200ER, at 1:20 am MST, forty minutes after takeoff.  Operated by Malaysia Airlines (MAS), the aircraft carried 12 Malaysian crew members and 227 passengers from 14 nations.

A joint search and rescue effort, later reported as the largest in history, was initiated in the Gulf of Thailand and the South China Sea. The search area was later extended to include the Strait of Malacca, Andaman Sea, and the Indian Ocean. On 15 March, investigators believed that the aircraft had first headed west back across the Malay Peninsula, then continued on a northern or southern track for approximately seven hours.

Two satellite images taken on 16 and 18 March showed potential aircraft debris in the southern Indian Ocean southwest of Western Australia, prompting increased search activity in the area. Since 22 March, there have been almost daily sightings of marine debris in the search area made by various countries' satellites. However, none of the photographed objects has been confirmed as belonging to the missing aircraft. On 28 March, revised estimates of the flight's fuel consumption after losing radar contact caused a move of the search area to 1,100 kilometres (680 mi) north-east of the previous search area.

On 24 March, the Malaysian government confirmed analyses by the British Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) and Inmarsat and concluded "beyond any reasonable doubt" that the aircraft had gone down in the southern Indian Ocean with no survivors. On 29 March, the Government of Malaysia and the AAIB stated that, in accordance with the protocols detailed in International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) Annex 13 concerning aircraft accident investigation, an international team would investigate the loss of the flight.