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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.
Families of passengers from both China and Malaysia, who were aboard the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, during a remembrance event commemorating the 10th anniversary of the disappearance, in Subang Jaya, Malaysia, March 3, 2024. Photo: Reuters
Malaysia

Families of MH370 passengers urge Malaysia to extend ocean search

Families of those aboard Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 urged ⁠the government to extend a ⁠contract with deep-sea exploration firm Ocean Infinity.

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

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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.

A man walks past a mural representing the missing flight MH370 in August 2015. Photo: AFP
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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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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The plane disappeared almost 11 years ago after taking off from Kuala Lumpur. Photo: AFP
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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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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A woman writes a message at an event to mark the 10th year since the Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 carrying 239 people disappeared on March 8, 2014. Photo: AFP
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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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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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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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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Illustration: Lau Ka-kuen
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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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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The arrival board at the International Airport in Beijing, China, shows a Malaysian airliner delayed on March 8, 2014. Photo: AP
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.

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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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.

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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