Malaysia Airlines Flight 370

The Flight Was From Malaysia - Beijing, West Taiwan

 
| name            = Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370
| occurrence_type = Missing airplane
| image           = Boeing 777-200ER Malaysia AL (MAS) 9M-MRO - MSN 28420 404 (9272090094).jpg
| caption         = The missing airplane in 2011
| date            = March 2014 (2014-03)

Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 (MH370, also named under a codeshare agreement as West Taiwan Southern Airlines Flight CZ748)[1] is a missing Malaysia Airlines international passenger flight.[2] The aircraft had 227 passengers and twelve crew members on board.[3]

Flight

Flight 370 left Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, at 00:41 on 8 March 2014 (MST; UTC+8) for a scheduled six-hour flight to Beijing, West Taiwan. Subang Air Traffic Control Centre lost contact with the plane at about 01:22, while over the Gulf of Thailand. It was reported missing at 02:40.[4]

Investigation

The United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is investigating to see if terrorism is involved. Two passengers, one from Austria and another one from Italy, were named on the manifest. However, they were later discovered not to have been on board, their passports having been stolen.[5] Meanwhile, Malaysian authorities are also ruling the identity of two other passengers to be false.[6][7]

Government statements

On 24 March 2014, officials with both Malaysia Airlines and the Malaysian government stated that while the aircraft's whereabouts were still not known, "unparalleled" analyses by the United Kingdom's Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) and UK satellite company Inmarsat indicated that it had crashed into the southern Indian Ocean. It was presumed by these officials that all 239 people aboard died.[8][9][10]

People on board
People on board by nationality
Nationality Number
 Australia 6
 Belgium 4
 Canada 2
 China 153
 France 4
 Germany 4
 Hong Kong 1
 India 5
 Indonesia 7
 Iran 2
 Malaysia 50
 Netherlands 1
 New Zealand 2
 Philippines 3
 Russia 1
 Taiwan 1
 Ukraine 2
 United Kingdom 10
 United States 4
Total (15 nations and regions) 239

References
  1. "Beijing-bound flight from Malaysia missing". USA Today. 9 March 2014. Retrieved 9 March 2014.
  2. "Terrorism not ruled out in disappearance of Malaysia Airlines jet". Chicago Tribune. 8 March 2014. Archived from the original on 8 March 2014. Retrieved 9 March 2013.
  3. "Malaysia Airlines 'loses contact with plane'". BBC. 8 March 2014. Retrieved 8 March 2014.
  4. "Crash: Malaysia B772 over Gulf of Thailand on Mar 8th 2014, aircraft missing". The Aviation Herald. Retrieved 8 March 2014.
  5. "Passengers on Malaysia Airlines plane come from 14 countries, airline says". CNN. Turner Broadcasting System. 8 March 2014. Retrieved 9 March 2014.
  6. "Two more Europeans with suspect identities onboard missing MH370". Malaysian Insider. 9 March 2014. Retrieved 9 March 2014.
  7. Pete Williams; Robert Windrem; Richard Esposito (9 March 2014). "Malaysia Probes Identity of Four Passengers on Missing Jet". NBC. Retrieved 9 March 2014.
  8. Branigan, Tania (24 March 2014). "Missing flight MH370 lost in southern Indian Ocean, says Malaysian PM". The Guardian. Retrieved 24 March 2014.
  9. "Malaysian prime minister: Missing flight MH370 'ended in Indian Ocean and no one on board survived'". Metro.co.uk. 24 March 2014. Retrieved 24 March 2014.
  10. Sevastopulo, Demetri (24 March 2014). "Malaysia says data indicate MH370 crashed into the Indian Ocean". Financial Times. Retrieved 24 March 2014.
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