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'''[[Malaysia Airlines]] Flight 370''' (MH370,<ref> CBC News, [http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/malaysia-airlines-jet-missing-2-canadians-among-239-on-board-1.2564616 "Malaysia Airlines jet missing, 2 Canadians among 239 on board"], 7 March 2014 </ref> also designated under a [[codeshare agreement]] as [[China Southern Airlines]] Flight CZ748<ref>[http://info.flightmapper.net/flight/China_Southern_CZ_748 China Southern flight CZ 748: Kuala Lumpur - Capital, Beijing], FlightMapper.net. Retreived 7 March 2014.</ref><ref name="usatoday">{{cite web | url=http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2014/03/07/malaysia-airlines-beijing-flight-missing/6187779/ | title=Beijing-bound flight from Malaysia missing | publisher=USA TODAY | accessdate=7 March 2014}}</ref>) is a missing international passenger flight operated by a [[Boeing 777|Boeing 777-200ER]] aircraft with 227 passengers and 12 crew members on board.<ref name=BBC>{{cite news|title=Malaysia Airlines 'loses contact with plane'|url=http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-26492748|accessdate=8 March 2014|newspaper=[[BBC]]|date=8 March 2014}}</ref>
'''[[Malaysia Airlines]] Flight 370''' (MH370,<ref> CBC News, [http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/malaysia-airlines-jet-missing-2-canadians-among-239-on-board-1.2564616 "Malaysia Airlines jet missing, 2 Canadians among 239 on board"], 7 March 2014 </ref> also designated under a [[codeshare agreement]] as [[China Southern Airlines]] Flight CZ748<ref>[http://info.flightmapper.net/flight/China_Southern_CZ_748 China Southern flight CZ 748: Kuala Lumpur - Capital, Beijing], FlightMapper.net. Retreived 7 March 2014.</ref><ref name="usatoday">{{cite web | url=http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2014/03/07/malaysia-airlines-beijing-flight-missing/6187779/ | title=Beijing-bound flight from Malaysia missing | publisher=USA TODAY | accessdate=7 March 2014}}</ref>) is a missing international passenger flight operated by a [[Boeing 777|Boeing 777-200ER]] aircraft with 227 passengers and 12 crew members on board.<ref name=BBC>{{cite news|title=Malaysia Airlines 'loses contact with plane'|url=http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-26492748|accessdate=8 March 2014|newspaper=[[BBC]]|date=8 March 2014}}</ref>


Flight 370 departed [[Kuala Lumpur]], Malaysia, at 00:41 on 8 March 2014 ([[Time in Malaysia|MST]]; [[UTC+8]]) for a scheduled six-hour flight to [[Beijing]], China. [[Subang Air Traffic Control Centre]] lost contact with the plane at about 01:22, while it was over the [[Gulf of Thailand]], and reported that the aircraft was missing to Malaysia Airlines at 02:40.<ref name="Aviation Herald">{{cite web|title=Crash: Malaysia B772 over Gulf of Thailand on Mar 8th 2014, aircraft missing|url=http://avherald.com/h?article=4710c69b&opt=0|work=The Aviation Herald|accessdate=8 March 2014}}</ref><ref name="MH370 Flight Incident"/><ref name="MH370 Flight Incident"/> A joint search-and-rescue effort is being conducted by Vietnamese, Malaysian and Chinese authorities.<ref name=Reuters>{{cite web|last=Grudgings|first=Stuart|title=Malaysia Airlines plane crashes in South China Sea with 239 people aboard: report|url=http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/08/us-malaysiaairlines-flight-idUSBREA2701720140308|accessdate=8 March 2014}}</ref><ref name=tuoitrenews18157/>
Flight 370 departed [[Kuala Lumpur]], Malaysia, at 00:41 on 8 March 2014 ([[Time in Malaysia|MST]]; [[UTC+8]]) for a scheduled six-hour flight to [[Beijing]], China. [[Subang Air Traffic Control Centre]] lost contact with the plane at about 01:22, while it was over the [[Gulf of Thailand]], and reported that the aircraft was missing to Malaysia Airlines at 02:40.<ref name="Aviation Herald">{{cite web|title=Crash: Malaysia B772 over Gulf of Thailand on Mar 8th 2014, aircraft missing|url=http://avherald.com/h?article=4710c69b&opt=0|work=The Aviation Herald|accessdate=8 March 2014}}</ref><ref name="MH370 Flight Incident"/><ref name="MH370 Flight Incident"/> A joint search-and-rescue effort is being conducted by Singaporean, Vietnamese, Malaysian and Chinese authorities.<ref name=Reuters>{{cite web|last=Grudgings|first=Stuart|title=Malaysia Airlines plane crashes in South China Sea with 239 people aboard: report|url=http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/08/us-malaysiaairlines-flight-idUSBREA2701720140308|accessdate=8 March 2014}}</ref><ref name=tuoitrenews18157/>


==Aircraft==
==Aircraft==

Revision as of 14:27, 8 March 2014

Malaysia Airlines Flight 370
9M-MRO, the missing aircraft, at Charles de Gaulle Airport in 2011
Occurrence
Date8 March 2014
SummaryMissing, under investigation[1]
SiteLast known position: 226 km east of Pattani Province, Thailand
6°55′15″N 103°34′43″E / 6.92083°N 103.57861°E / 6.92083; 103.57861
Aircraft
Aircraft typeBoeing 777-2H6ER
OperatorMalaysia Airlines
Registration9M-MRO
Flight originKuala Lumpur International Airport, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
DestinationBeijing Capital International Airport, Beijing, China
Passengers227
Crew12

Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 (MH370,[2] also designated under a codeshare agreement as China Southern Airlines Flight CZ748[3][4]) is a missing international passenger flight operated by a Boeing 777-200ER aircraft with 227 passengers and 12 crew members on board.[5]

Flight 370 departed Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, at 00:41 on 8 March 2014 (MST; UTC+8) for a scheduled six-hour flight to Beijing, China. Subang Air Traffic Control Centre lost contact with the plane at about 01:22, while it was over the Gulf of Thailand, and reported that the aircraft was missing to Malaysia Airlines at 02:40.[6][7][7] A joint search-and-rescue effort is being conducted by Singaporean, Vietnamese, Malaysian and Chinese authorities.[1][8]

Aircraft

The Boeing 777, registration 9M-MRO, was delivered new to Malaysia Airlines on 31 May 2002. The aircraft was powered by two Rolls-Royce Trent 1000 engines.[9] According to the airline, it had accumulated 20,243 hours and 3,023 cycles in service. [10] [11]

This incident marks the fourth hull loss of a Boeing 777, the previous being Asiana Airlines Flight 214 with three fatalities.[12]

Incident

The flight departed Kuala Lumpur International Airport at 00:41 Malaysia time (16:41, 7 March UTC) and was last seen on ATC radar at 6°55′15″N 103°34′43″E / 6.92083°N 103.57861°E / 6.92083; 103.57861 (Tho Chu Islands)[13] (approximately 110 km NNE of Kuala Terengganu, Malaysia) and ceased communication and lost GPS transponder signal[14] right before it was passed off to the Ho Chi Minh Area Control Center.[6][15][7]

The Aviation Herald reported that Subang Air Traffic Control lost contact with the aircraft at 01:22 and officially advised Malaysia Airlines at 02:40 that the aircraft was missing.[6] Malaysia Airlines issued a media release stating that contact was lost at 02:40 when the aircraft was approximately 120 nautical miles east of Kota Baru at the South China Sea, which is the borderline of Malaysian airspace and Vietnam control. The Boeing 777-200ER plane relayed no distress signal, indications of bad weather or technical problems before vanishing from radar screens. The flight was scheduled to land at Beijing International Airport at 06:30.[16] When radar contact with the aircraft was lost, it was carrying fuel for an additional 7.5 hours of flying time.[17]

Xinhua news agency reported that radar signal and contact with the plane was lost over Vietnamese airspace, in Ho Chi Minh air traffic control area.[18][17] Relevant authorities in China as well as Thailand have informed their Malaysian counterparts that the aircraft had not crossed their airspace.[19]

According to Admiral Ngo Van Phat from the Vietnam People's Navy, military radar lost the plane 153 nautical miles (300 km) south of Thổ Chu in the Gulf of Thailand.[8][20] The Vietnamese government initially reported that the aircraft crashed at sea in the Gulf of Thailand, though the airline denied this claim,[21] and the claim about the known location of the aircraft by the Vietnamese Navy was rejected by Malaysian Minister of Transport, Hishammuddin Hussein.[22] The Vietnamese Navy later clarified that the admiral had actually been referring to the location where contact was last made rather than indicating a crash site.[6]

Response

Malaysia Airlines confirmed that search and rescue operations had begun.[7] Two Chinese rescue ships were deployed to the South China Sea as part of the search.[23] Malaysian authorities have also dispatched a plane, two helicopters and four vessels to search seas off its east coast in the South China Sea.[24] The Philippine AFP Western Command has also sent naval assets and a search-and-rescue plane to the South China Sea to help in the search efforts.[20][25] The Republic of Singapore Air Force announced on its Facebook page that it had dispatched a Lockheed C-130 Hercules to assist in the search.[26] The U.S. Navy has deployed a guided missile destroyer, carrying two MH-60R helicopters which can be equipped for search and rescue, to the southern coast of Vietnam to assist in the search. The United States is also sending a P-3C Orion aircraft from Kadena Air Base in Okinawa, Japan.[27]

During the search the Vietnamese Navy reported spotting at least one oil slick, between 10–20 kilometres (6.2–12.4 mi), which is believed to be that of the missing aircraft.[28][29] It has been reported that Vietnam's Civil Aviation Department planes spotted two large oil slicks that authorities suspect are from a MAS jetliner. The slicks, each between 10–15 kilometres (6.2–9.3 mi) long, and 500 metres (1,600 ft) apart, were spotted 140 metres (460 ft) south of Tho Chu island off southern Vietnam, and were consistent with the kind that would be left by fuel from a crashed jetliner.[30]

Passengers and crew

According to Malaysia Airlines, the flight's captain, Zaharie Ahmad Shah, is a 53-year-old Malaysian with 18,365 flying hours' experience who joined the company in 1981. The first officer, Fariq Ab Hamid, age 27, is also Malaysian, has 2,763 flying hours, and has been an employee since 2007.[7]

Malaysia Airlines released the nationalities of the 227 passengers on board. All 12 crew are Malaysian.[31][32]

Nationality Passengers
 Australia 6
 Austria 1
 Canada 2
 China 153
 France 3
 India 5
 Indonesia 7
 Italy 1
 Malaysia 38 (+12 crew)
 Netherlands 1
 New Zealand 2
 Russia 1
 Taiwan 1
 Ukraine 2
 United States 4
Total (15 nationalities) 239

See also

Other Malaysia Airlines incidents:

Other Boeing 777 incidents:

References

  1. ^ a b "Malaysia Airlines denies crash report, says plane still missing". Reuters. 8 March 2014. Retrieved 8 March 2014. Cite error: The named reference "Reuters" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
  2. ^ CBC News, "Malaysia Airlines jet missing, 2 Canadians among 239 on board", 7 March 2014
  3. ^ China Southern flight CZ 748: Kuala Lumpur - Capital, Beijing, FlightMapper.net. Retreived 7 March 2014.
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  8. ^ a b "Vietnam Navy says Malaysia Airlines plane crashes off Tho Chu Island". Tuoi Tre News. 8 March 2014. Retrieved 8 March 2014.
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  10. ^ "Vanished Malaysia Airlines plane had clocked up 'normal' 900,000 hours' flying time". South China Morning Post. Retrieved 8 March 2014.
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  12. ^ "Aviation Safety Network list of Boeing 777 hull losses". Aviation Safety Networks. Retrieved 8 March 2014.
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  14. ^ Interview with Mikael Robertson of Fight Radar 24, Astro Awani, 8 March 2014
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  27. ^ "U.S. Sends Destroyer to Aid Search for Malaysia Airlines Jet". NBC News. 8 March 2014. Retrieved 8 March 2014.
  28. ^ Bradsher, Keith (8 March 2014). "Oil Slick Sighting Is First Sign Malaysia Airlines Plane May Have Crashed". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 8 March 2014.
  29. ^ "Five young children among missing Malaysia Airlines passengers as air search called off". South China Morning Post. Retrieved 8 March 2014.
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  31. ^ "MH370 Flight Incident". Malaysia Airlines. 8 March 2014. Retrieved 8 March 2014.
  32. ^ "MH 370 PASSENGER MANIFEST" (PDF). Malaysia Airlines. 8 March 2014. Retrieved 8 March 2014.
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