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Malaysia Airlines flight 370

Malaysia Airlines flight 370
A Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200ER from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing lost contact with air control and went missing more than a hour after it took off in the early hours of Saturday, March 8, 2014. The incident triggered an unprecedented international search and rescue operation that spanned from the southern Indian Ocean to Central Asia and involved more than two dozen countries.
A Pan American World Airways logo on the nose section of the Clipper Endeavor wreck. Photo: Air/Sea Heritage Foundation and Deep Sea Vision via AP
Aviation accidents

Wreckage of Pan Am plane found decades after crash that changed aviation safety

The 1952 crash off Puerto Rico killed 52 people and was a catalyst for modern preflight safety briefings.

Malaysia

Families of MH370 passengers urge Malaysia to extend ocean search

Malaysia

Will Ocean Infinity finally solve the flight MH370 mystery in Indian Ocean?

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Accidents and disasters in China

Chinese court orders Malaysia Airlines to pay families of 8 MH370 victims

The airline must pay over US$410,000 per passenger in China’s first formal compensation ruling on flight that vanished 11 years ago.

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Chinese relatives of flight MH370 passengers take part in a prayer service in Beijing in April 2014. Photo: AFP
Malaysia

Search for Malaysia’s MH370 resumes in Indian Ocean after more than a decade

US-based Ocean Infinity confirmed it would recommence intermittent seabed search operations for 55 days from December 30.

Malaysia

‘When will 11 years of waiting end?’: search for missing flight MH370 paused

Malaysia’s transport minister said Ocean Infinity will resume the search for the plane at the end of this year.

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Malaysia

Malaysia agrees ‘no find, no fee’ terms to restart flight MH370 search

Exploration company Ocean Infinity will receive US$70 million if the wreckage is successfully located.

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Crew members on a Malaysian Air Force aircraft during a search and rescue operation to find the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 plane over the Strait of Malacca on March 14, 2014. Photo: AFP
Malaysia

China welcomes new search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370

Deep-sea exploration company Ocean Infinity has resumed efforts to find out what happened to the flight that disappeared 11 years ago.

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Malaysia

‘It’s hard to have expectations’: search for missing flight MH370 resumes

Conducted by deep-sea exploration company Ocean Infinity, the new search will cover a 15,000 sq km area of the southern Indian Ocean.

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Malaysia

New search for missing MH370 plane begins in Indian Ocean

Ocean Infinity’s operation focuses on four hotspots off Australian coast where researchers believe the wreck would most likely be.

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A mural representing the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 at an alley near Kuala Lumpur. Photo: AFP
Hong Kong society

Letters | Let Christmas in Hong Kong be a season for inclusivity

Readers discuss how to make ethnic minorities feel more included, the fiscal impact of fare rises, a new tool for solving the MH370 mystery, and the lack of arts venues.

Tsim Sha Tsui on Christmas Day on December 25. Photo: Nora Tam
Malaysia

Malaysia agrees to resume search for missing flight MH370

Malaysia’s cabinet has agreed in principle to an offer from Ocean Infinity to a ‘no find, no fee’ search deal, the transport minister says.

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Malaysia

‘Crisis of confidence’: Malaysia Airlines under scrutiny amid safety concerns

A string of technical issues and cancelled flights in recent weeks have led to heightened concerns and frustrations among customers.

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Malaysia

CEO says Malaysia Airlines seeking to move past MH370 crisis, rebuild trust

CEO Izham Ismail said the company was no more a laid-back organisation as he seeks to turn it into a premium carrier by the end of the decade.

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A Malaysian Airlines plane taxis at Kuala Lumpur airport in Sepang, Selangor. Photo: Bloomberg
Malaysia

‘I don’t want to give them false hope’: Anwar tempers MH370 search expectations

Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said a decision on resuming search for the wreckage would be taken soon, but relatives of the missing should not expect any breakthroughs.

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Students light candles to pray for the passengers on the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 in Zhuji, China’s Zhejiang province. Photo: AFP
Global Impact

10 years on, what ever happened to Malaysia Airlines flight MH370?

In this week’s issue of the Global Impact newsletter, we reflect on renewed hope for the resumption of a search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 a decade after its mysterious disappearance.

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Malaysia

Opinion | Can Malaysia’s MH370 aircraft still be found, 10 years after it disappeared?

Previous searches in the Indian Ocean did not locate any wreckage, although several pieces of debris have washed up over the years.

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Malaysia

Flight MH370 10 years on: Malaysians unite in grief to remember the 239 on board

Malaysian authorities have promised to embark on a third search for the missing plane after two previous failed attempts.

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A woman writes on the message board during the 10th annual remembrance event of missing flight MH 370 at a mall in Subang Jaya, Malaysia on March 3, 2024. Photo: AP
Aviation

Why China’s MH370 families are still searching for the missing a decade on

For those left behind, the need to find their children, grandchildren and parents is as urgent as ever.

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Boeing

Editorial | Closure has no price for MH370 families

Ten years after the Malaysia Airlines flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing went off radar screens and disappeared, relatives of the 239 aboard still do not know what happened.

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Malaysia

‘No find, no fee’: 10 years on, Malaysia seeks to revive search for MH370 jet

Malaysia is set to offer US deep-sea explorer Ocean Infinity a deal to restart the search on a ‘no-find, no-fee’ basis, Transport Minister Anthony Loke said.

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Malaysian Transport Minister Anthony Loke, centre, joins the relatives of missing MH370 passengers in a candlelight vigil on March 3. Photo: Hadi Azmi
Malaysia

MH370: 10 years on, Malaysia’s call for real-time plane tracking still unheeded

Malaysian air crash investigators proposed early on for commercial aircraft to be outfitted with real-time tracking systems to help planes in distress.

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Relatives of missing MH370 passengers at a remembrance ceremony in Putrajaya, Malaysia, on March 7, 2020, to mark the sixth anniversary of the plane’s disappearance. The aircraft went missing on March 8, 2014. Photo: EPA-EFE
Malaysia

A decade after MH370 disappeared, planes still at risk of vanishing off the map

Ten years after MH370, an industry-wide push to rule out a similar case has been stymied by bureaucracy, financial pressure, and a debate about who should have ultimate control of the cockpit.

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Singapore

‘Girl math’, MH370 jokes: Singapore’s biggest social media stories of 2023

Singapore may be small, but its capacity for online drama is surprisingly huge. Read on for the year’s biggest social media stories to set tongues wagging in the city state.

SCMP Highlights

China’s hypersonic flight engine, renewed MH370 search calls: SCMP’s 7 highlights

From China keeping its distance from a growing Russia-North Korea alignment to Singapore’s major stories of 2023, here are a few highlights from SCMP’s recent reporting.

A relative of a missing flight MH370 passenger holds a banner stating “Malaysia Airlines MH370 case” in Chinese after a compensation claim hearing in Beijing on November 27. Photo: EPA-EFE
Aviation

China’s MH370 families urge new search after experts stir hopes of finding plane

French aviation insiders say their research shows renewed hunt could quickly find Malaysia Airlines jet that disappeared nearly a decade ago, prompting relatives of missing Chinese passengers to call for more efforts.

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A relative of a missing flight MH370 passenger holds a banner stating “Malaysia Airlines MH370 case” in Chinese after a compensation claim hearing in Beijing on November 27. Photo: EPA-EFE
Malaysia

Experts claim missing MH370 flight could be found in ‘days’ with new search

Aerospace expert Jean-Luc Marchand and pilot Patrick Blelly have called for a new search based on revelations about the fate of the flight.

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Malaysia

How barnacles could help solve the mystery of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370

Studying the barnacles on a piece of plane debris could help investigators finally figure out where the ill-fated flight crashed.

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