Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 goes missing
8 Mar 2014 |
| On 8 March 2014, Malaysian Airlines flight MH370, bound for Beijing took off from Kaula Lumpur at 12:41 am local time.
The Boeing 777 was carrying 12 crew and 227 passengers from 15 nations.
The plane was last seen on the military radar at 2:14 am, half an hour after which the airlines announced that it has lost contact with the plane.
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Search for the missing plane begins
Mar-Apr 2015 |
| The disappearance of MH370 led to a multi-national search effort from Malaysian authorities to Australian authorities.
The search covered the South China Sea, the Strait of Malacca, Andaman Sea and the southern Indian Ocean.
On 24 March, Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak announced that based on the analysis, flight MH370 had ended in the Southern Indian Ocean.
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Underwater search resumes with sonar devices
Sep-Oct 2014 |
| After a four-month lull in the search activities, it was announced that underwater search upto depths of 6 km would be resumed at the end of Sep 2014.
The new underwater search involved ships dragging sonar devices called 'towfish' through water to look for wreckage.
The towfish with fuel sensors transmit data to those on board the ship, which would then be analyzed.
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MH370 case officially declared an accident
Jan 2015 |
| On 28 Jan, Malaysia's Department of Civil Aviation (DCA) officially declared the MH370 case an accident.
The DCA said that, it concluded the plane exhausted its fuel 'over a defined area of the Southern Indian Ocean'.
A senior Boeing 777 captain Simon Hardy suggested that the aircraft should be in the Indian Ocean just outside the far south-western edge of the core search area.
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After a year, no closure yet for MH370
March-May 2015 |
| On 7 March, Malaysian transport minister said that his country remained committed to find the plane and if not found by the end of May, data will be re-examined and a new plan will be formulated.
On 13 May, wreckage discovered in the search zone initially expected to be that of MH370's, eventually turned out to be shipwreck.
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Conspiracy theories
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| With MH370 nowhere to be found, several theories were widely circulated which includes: plane shot down during military operations, hijacked by terrorists, pilot suicide, deliberate act by someone on board etc. |
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Wreckage found may belong to MH370
31 Jul 2015 |
| Plane debris found on the French island of Reunion, located in the western Indian Ocean is suspected to be from the missing Malaysian airlines flight MH370.
The debris was believed to be a flaperon (part of aircraft wing) from Boeing 777, the same plane as MH370.
Xavier Tytleman, an aviation expert was sent the photos of wreckage by a man from the island.
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Investigators conclude MH370 crashed in Indian Ocean
3 Mar 2016 |
| Debris that washed up in Mozambique has been tentatively identified as a part from the same type of aircraft as the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.
Photos of the debris appeared to show the fixed leading edge of the right-hand tail section of a Boeing 777.
Malaysian Transport Minister Liow Tiong Lai tweeted about the discovery, saying the parts were sent for forensic analysis.
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Families of Malaysian Flight 370 passengers file claims
8 Mar 2016 |
| The families of those on board the disappeared Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 filed lawsuits seeking compensation in different countries against the airline.
Under the 1999 Montreal Convention, the carrier is liable to give compensation in the event of loss of life and the families can claim upto $160,000 even if the airline is not at fault.
42 families have already settled with the airline.
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Mozambique debris 'almost certainly' from MH370
25 Mar 2016 |
| Australian and Malaysian authorities said that two pieces of debris found in Mozambique are "almost certainly from MH370."
They added that technical analysis showed that the parts that were found were consistent with panels from a MAS Boeing 777 aircraft, the same make as the MH370.
Authorities said the location of the debris was "consistent with drift modeling performed by CSIRO."
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Mauritius debris from MH370, says Malaysia
07 Oct 2016 |
| Malaysian officials said that the debris of a plane recovered off the coast of Mauritius was that of missing Malaysian Airlines MH370 which disappeared along with 239 passengers in March 2014.
Australia's Transport Safety Bureau had earlier confirmed that a portion of debris found in Mauritius was consistent with the tail end of a Boeing 777.
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Report on missing MH370 released
02 Nov 2016 |
| The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) on Wednesday released a report on the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370.
The Malaysian flight which disappeared in March 2014 is said to have run out of fuel and thereby descended rapidly, according to the report.
Analysis of the wing flap debris by the ATSB stated that the aircraft was not in a position to land.
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MH370 'not likely to be in search area'
21 Dec 2016 |
| MH370, the Malaysian Airlines flight which disappeared while flying to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur is possibly not in the current search area, according to experts.
After two years of searching, there has been no trace of the flight in the southern Indian Ocean; experts leading the hunt recommend searching further north.
Governments of Australia, Malaysia and China are funding the search.
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