Malaysian Airlines jet News

Search Ends for Missing MH370, Aviation Mystery Remains Unsolved

The hunt for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 was called off Tuesday after almost three years of fruitless toil. The Boeing Co. 777 aircraft disappeared on March 8, 2014, on its way to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur with 239 people on …

Chinese Ship Equipped With Advanced Sonar Joins Search for Flight 370

A Chinese ship equipped with advanced sonar equipment will soon join the search for the Malaysian airliner believed to have crashed in the southern Indian Ocean almost two years ago, an official said on Friday. The Dong Hai Jiu 101 …

Discovery of Plane Part May Not Solve MH370 Mystery

There’s little chance that wreckage found in the Indian Ocean will reveal the final resting place of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. That’s a lesson learned by researchers who studied the 2011 tsunami in Japan, which sent flotsam to venues as …

Plane Debris Found in Indian Ocean Same Type as Missing Jetliner

Air safety investigators have a “high degree of confidence” that aircraft debris found in the Indian Ocean is of a wing component unique to the Boeing 777, the same model as the Malaysia Airlines plane that disappeared last year, a …

More Focus on Flight Tracking a Year After Flight 370 Goes Missing

At 656,000 pounds fully loaded and the length of six school buses, the Boeing 777-200ER is hard to miss. Yet nearly one year ago, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 vanished, taking the lives of 239 passengers and crew in one of …

Officials Meet at Global Safety Conference to Discuss Aviation Calamities

Government and aviation industry officials from dozens of countries are meeting in Montreal this week to try to find consensus on how to keep from losing airliners like the one that vanished without a trace in Asia and another shot …

Authorities Plan Salvage Operation for Missing Malaysian Jet

Despite no firm clue to the whereabouts of a Malaysian airliner being discovered since it disappeared 10 months ago far off the Australian coast, authorities on Thursday invited expressions of interest from salvage operators in case the wreck is found. …