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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.
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

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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Malaysia

China welcomes new search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370

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Malaysia

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

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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.

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 Airlines planes parked at Kuala Lumpur International Airport. Photo: Reuters
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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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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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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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. Photo: EPA-EFE
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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A family member of passengers and crew on board the missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 writes on a memorial wall during a remembrance event marking the 10th anniversary of its disappearance in Selangor, Malaysia, on March 3. Photo: EPA-EFE
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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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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A woman writes on a message board during the 10th annual remembrance of the disapperance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 at a shopping mall in Subang Jaya, near Kuala Lumpur. Photo: AP
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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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.

Jocelyn Chia in a still from a TikTok video of her performance at a New York comedy club. Photo: TikTok/@ComedyCellarUSA
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.

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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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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Indian sand artist Sudarshan Patnaik applies the final touches to a sand art sculpture wishing for the well being of the passengers of Malaysian Airlines flight MH370. Photo: Reuters/File
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.

Barnacles. Researchers have been able to provide important information in the search for MH370 by studying how barnacles formed on a piece of plane debris. Photo: Shutterstock
Malaysia

‘Crossing the line’: Jocelyn Chia saga shows limits of Asia’s sense of humour

From India to Singapore, some comics say the business of humour is an increasingly risky one, as the line separating ‘offensive’ and ‘illegal’ becomes blurred.

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Malaysia

Jocelyn Chia taunts Malaysia over plane joke again as she revels in infamy

The Singapore-born comic, whose gag about the missing plane enraged the Southeast Asian, thanked Malaysians for putting her in the spotlight.

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Fame and celebrity

Who is Jocelyn Chia, the controversial Singaporean comedian wanted by Malaysia?

Some jokes just don’t land: New York-based comedian Jocelyn Chia has been the centre of global attention after her controversial joke about the missing Malaysia Airlines plane – so who is she exactly?

Comedian Jocelyn Chia left her job as a corporate lawyer to pursue a career in stand-up comedy. Photo: Kelly Ng
Singapore

Malaysia police ‘to seek Interpol help’ over comedian Jocelyn Chia’s MH370 joke

As row into Singapore-born Chia’s quip about the missing flight refuses to die down, police chief says international help will be sought in quest to locate her.

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Comedian Joselyn Chia performing in California. File photo: Getty Images
Malaysia

Under-fire comedian says not ‘cancelled’ by Instagram over Malaysia plane joke

Chia, whose skit at a New York comedy club sparked fierce backlash from Malaysians, said her account got suspended for ‘impersonating a celebrity’.

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Malaysia

Envoy says comedian ‘not Singaporean’ as Malaysia rages at MH370 joke

The city state’s high commissioner in Kuala Lumpur apologised to Malaysians for Chia’s ‘hurtful remarks’ made at a New York comedy club in a bid to put an end to the simmering controversy.

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