Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 event

8 March 2014; Malaysia Airlines 777-200; 9M-MRO; flight MH370; unknown location: The aircraft was on a scheduled international flight between Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and Beijing, China and went missing while en route. The current status and location of the most of the aircraft wreckage, along with the fate of the 227 passengers and 12 crew members who were on board, is unknown.

This was a numbered event as defined by AirSafe.com because the aircraft has not been found and because there is substantial indirect evidence that one or more passengers were killed.

Safety Investigation Report
In July 2018, over four years after the aircraft went missing, the Malaysian government, which had primary responsibility for the investigation, released a safety investigation report that concluded that the investigative team was unable to determine why the aircraft disappeared. The report also noted that 27 pieces of debris that were found on various shorelines were examined in detail and that only three pieces were confirmed to have been from the missing aircraft. Seven other pieces were found to have likely been from the aircraft.

Search efforts
The Australian government, at the request of the Malaysian government, had accepted responsibility for the search and recovery operations associated with the MH370 investigation, and the Australian Transport Safety Bureau , which led the search for MH370, regularly published operational updates about the search. The search area in the southern Indian Ocean covered about 120,000 square kilometers (46,332 sq mi), which is roughly the size of the US state of Pennsylvania, or of the nation of North Korea (DPRK). Most of the search area was covered by over a kilometer of water, and in some places the water was over six kilometers (3.7 miles) deep.

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• 1 May 2014 - Preliminary MH370 investigation report

• 29 May 2014 - Summarizing the first 11 weeks since the loss of flight MH370

• 26 June 2014 - Revised search area for flight MH370

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• 10 October 2014 - Analysis of MH370 flight path

Related interviews

• 8 March 2016 - CJOB radio interview on comparisons to Air France crash of 2009
• 8 March 2016 - KOMO radio interview on prospects for finding MH370
• 3 March 2016 - - KING television interview on possible MH370 piece in Mozambique
• 12 November 2015 - UN agreement on 11 November 2015 allows better ATC coverage over the ocean
• 30 July 2015 - CKTB interview about potential MH370 debris on Reunion Island
• 30 July 2015 - BBC interview about uspected piece from MH370 found on Reunion Island
• 13 March 2014 - Al Jazeera interview on engine information sent by flight MH370
• 13 March 2014 - Al Jazeera interview on sighting of possible flight MH370 debris
• 13 March 2014 - BBC radio interview on the search for flight MH370
• 13 March 2014 - BBC radio interview on the search for flight MH370 (YouTube)
• 13 March 2014 - Al Jazeera interview on suspicious flight MH370 maneuvers
• 15 March 2014 - BBC radio interview on the search for flight MH370
• 15 March 2014 - Al Jazeera interview about evidence that flight MH370 airborne for about eight hours
• 15 March 2014 - Al Jazeera interview about evidence that flight MH370 deliberately diverted
• 16 March 2014 - Radio New Zealand interview about the search for flight MH370
• 16 March 2014 - MMM radio interview about flight MH370
• 20 March 2014 - NPR Morning Edition interview about the MH370 investigation
• 22 March 2014 - Al Jazeera interview why satellite photos may not be showing MH370 debris
• 23 March 2014 - Al Jazeera interview about secret informration used in the search for MH370
• 5 April 2014 - Al Jazeera interview on possible detection of MH370 black boxes
• 5 & 7 April 2014 - Four interviews about the MH370 investigation
• 8 April 2014 - NPR interview discussing the MH370 investigation
• 8 & 9 April 2014 - Three interviews about the MH370 investigation
• 24 April 2014 - KOMO radio interview on MH370
• 27 April 2014 - ABC Radio Australia interview about the MH370 investigation
• 31 May 2014 - Rudy Maxa show interview about MH370
• 23 June 2014 - CJOB radio interview on the MH370 investigation
• 23 July 2014 - KIQI radio interview on fights MH17 and MH370 (English and Spanish)
• 26 July 2014 - Rudy Maxa interview on crash frequency since 1996
• 25 July 2014 - Two BBC interviews on three airliner crashes in one week
• 26 July 2014 - CTV interview on increasing safety concerns
• 26 July 2014 - Rudy Maxa and Todd Curtis on crash frequency since 1996
• 25 August 2014 - Charles Adler of CJOB radio in Winnipeg, Canada and Todd Curtis discuss ongoing MH370 search issues
• 6 March 2015 - Charles Adler of CJOB radio and Todd Curtis discuss several MH370 scenarios
• 7 March 2015 - CJAD radio of Montreal, Canada, discussed several MH370 scenarios with Todd Curtis
• 29 July 2015 - BBC interview on discovery of suspected MH370 debris
• Other AirSafe.com interviews: Podcast | iTunes |  TuneIn

Related information
ATSB MH370 investigation
Plane crashes for airlines from Asia
Malaysia Airlines plane crashes
Other 777 Events
Malaysia Airlines Wikipedia page
Flight MH370 Wikipedia page

Malaysia government information
Final safety investigation report July 2018
Preliminary investigation report April 2014
Ministry of Transport Facebook page
Ministry of Transport main page
Office of the Prime Minister

BBC radio interview from 13 March 2014 discussing the possibility that the aircraft continued to fly for several hours.