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EXPERTS have confirmed that the aircraft debris discovered on Reunion Island belongs to missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370, Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak announced early Thursday. “Today, 515 days since the plane disappeared, it is with a very heavy heart that I must tell you that an international team of experts have conclusively confirmed that the aircraft debris found on Reunion Island is indeed from MH370,” said the prime minister, who added that the physical […]
(Courtesy China Central Television) — More information is needed to confirm what happened to missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, even if the wreckage found near the Reunion Island is verified as from the missing plane, a French aerospace professor said on Monday. The wreckage was discovered near Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean late Friday and has been confirmed to be part of a Boeing 777, the same aircraft type used for flight MH370. The […]
(Reuters) — French gendarmes and police examined a large piece of plane debris found on the beach in Saint-Andre, on the French Indian Ocean island of La Reunion on Wednesday (July 29). France’s BEA air crash investigation agency said it was examining the debris, in coordination with Malaysian and Australian authorities, to determine whether it came from Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, which vanished last year in one of the biggest mysteries in aviation history. […]
(Reuters) — The U.N. Security Council is to vote on Wednesday (July 29) on a bid for an international tribunal to prosecute those suspected of downing a passenger airliner a year ago in Ukraine, but Russia says it is likely to block the move. On July 17, 2014, Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was shot down in eastern Ukraine with 298 passengers on board, two-thirds of them Dutch. It crashed in Ukrainian territory held by Russian-backed […]
GOVERNMENT ministers from Australia, China and Malaysia on Thursday (April 16) said they would double the search area for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 if wreckage is not found in the current target area. No trace has been found of the Boeing 777 aircraft, which disappeared in March last year carrying 239 passengers and crew in what has become one of the greatest mysteries in aviation history. Most of the passengers were Chinese. The extended search […]
It was an emotional day for family and friends of those who disappeared on board Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, with a ceremony marking the first anniversary bringing together Malaysian, Chinese and other nationalities, as well as Malaysia Airlines staff. People of different races, religions and nationalities were united by the disappearance of their friends and relatives one year ago aboard flight MH370, and by the worry that they might never know what happened to them. […]
(Reuters) – Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 broke apart over Ukraine due to impact from a large number of fragments, the Dutch Safety Board said on Tuesday, in a report that Malaysia’s prime minister and several experts said suggested it was shot down from the ground. The crash over pro-Russian rebel-held territory in eastern Ukraine on July 17 killed 298 people, two thirds of them from the Netherlands. Ukraine and Western countries accuse the rebels of shooting it down with an […]
(Reuters) — After losing colleagues in two plane disasters this year the 19,500 staff of Malaysia Airlines (MAS) now face a new ordeal – a quarter of them may lose their jobs at the unprofitable airline. Deep job losses, route cuts and a change of leadership are expected to feature in a restructuring plan being prepared by Malaysia’s government, likely to be announced when MAS also reports second-quarter results, probably the last before being de-listed. The numbers are […]
(Reuters) – A Malaysian airliner was shot down over eastern Ukraine by militants on Thursday, killing all 295 people aboard, a Ukrainian interior ministry official was quoted as saying by Interfax-Ukraine news agency. The aircraft, which other sources said was a Boeing 777 flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, came down near the city of Donetsk, stronghold of pro-Russian rebels, Anton Gerashchenko said, adding that it was hit by a ground-to-air missile. There was no […]
(Reuters) – Malaysia Airlines (MASM.KL) Flight MH370 was most likely on autopilot when it crashed into the Indian Ocean further south than previously thought, Australian officials said on Thursday, as they charted the next phase of a so far fruitless search. The new analysis comes more than 100 days after the Boeing(BA.N) 777, carrying 239 passengers and crew, disappeared on March 8 shortly after taking off from Kuala Lumpur bound for Beijing. Investigators say what little evidence they […]
(Reuters) – A U.S. Navy underwater drone sent to search for a missing Malaysian jetliner on the floor of the Indian Ocean could take up to two months to scour a 600 sq km area where the plane is believed to have sunk, U.S. search authorities said on Tuesday. The prediction coincided with the end to the abbreviated first mission by the Bluefin-21 autonomous underwater vehicle six hours into what was meant to be a […]
(Reuters) – The search for a missing Malaysia Airlines jetliner resumed on Thursday with a renewed sense of optimism, after Australian officials said they had detected two new “ping” signals that may have come from the plane’s black box recorders. The mystery of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, which disappeared more than a month ago, has sparked the most expensive search and rescue operation in aviation history, but concrete information has proven frustratingly illusive. The announcement […]
