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A woman cries as she meets other relatives of passengers on board the missing Malaysia Airline MH370 plane at a security cordon near the Malaysian embassy in Beijing, Friday, March 8, 2024.

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A decade later, parents of Chinese passengers on MH370 still ask about their children

4:23am March 08, 2024

by The Associated Press

Friday is the 10th anniversary of the disappearance of flight MH370. The Boeing 777 left Malaysia bound for Beijing with 239 people on board, but took a sharp turn south and fell off the radar.

Graffiti on a wall commemorates the victims of the Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 crash in 2014 in Koog aan de Zaan, The Netherlands. The aircraft was shot down by Russian-backed rebels in eastern Ukraine using a Russian-made surface-to-air missile.

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Australian Couple Who Lost Children In MH17 Lambaste Trump For Not Confronting Putin

11:13am July 18, 2018

by Scott Neuman

Russia has repeatedly denied any involvement in the destruction of the Malaysia Airlines flight shot down by a Russian missile over eastern Ukraine in 2014, killing 298 passengers and crew.

Flight Officer Jack Chen uses binoculars at an observers window on a Royal Australian Air Force P-3 Orion during the search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 in the southern Indian Ocean in March 2014.

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Final Report On MH370 Says Failure To Locate Airliner Is 'Almost Inconceivable'

5:37pm October 03, 2017

by Geoff Brumfiel

The report on Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which vanished in 2014, found that a flight simulator at the pilot's home contained a route similar to the one investigators think the missing plane took.

Police board a Malaysia Airlines plane in Melbourne, Australia, after a man who said he had a bomb was tackled and tied up by passengers.

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After Bomb Threat, Malaysia Airlines Passengers Tackle Man — And Then Wait On Tarmac

3:26pm June 01, 2017

by Bill Chappell

When the jet returned to the airport, the suspect was already tied up. Police took him away — but they left the device he had held on the plane, along with the passengers, for 90 minutes.

Malaysia Airlines says the new system, which is expected to be operational in 2018, will use 66 low-earth-orbit satellites.

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Malaysia Airlines Says It Will Use Satellites To Track Its Fleet

1:26pm April 19, 2017

by Merrit Kennedy

Three years after MH Flight 370 disappeared from radar, Malaysia's national carrier says it will use satellites to track its planes at all times and that it will be the first airline to do so.

A waiter walks past a mural of Flight MH370 in Shah Alam outside Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in February 2016. The flight disappeared nearly three years ago with 239 people on board, and the search for the plane has now been suspended.

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Search For Missing Flight MH370 Suspended After Almost 3 Years

11:42am January 17, 2017

by Camila Domonoske

In March 2014, the flight vanished from radar with 239 people on board. Search crews have examined more than 45,000 square miles of the Indian Ocean, to no avail.

For two years, vessels have been scouring the southern Indian Ocean for signs of the missing jetliner. A new report suggests they might be looking in the wrong place.

Missing Malaysian Aircraft Is Likely Outside The Search Area, Report Finds

3:11pm December 20, 2016

by Geoff Brumfiel

A new analysis of existing data suggests that MH370, which vanished in March 2014, might have gone down to the north of the existing search area in the Indian Ocean.

A new analysis of wing fragments recovered from the aircraft off the African coast and several small islands suggests the plane descended rapidly in its final minutes.

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Missing Malaysia Airlines Jet Plunged Into Sea, New Report Suggests

1:06pm November 02, 2016

by Geoff Brumfiel

A new analysis of debris found from the plane suggests it was not attempting an emergency landing.

Relatives of passengers on Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 hold placards following a joint news conference on the search for the missing airliner Friday. The search will be suspended if nothing turns up in the current area, officials say.

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Search For Missing Malaysia Airlines Jetliner Will Be Suspended

12:14pm July 22, 2016

by Bill Chappell

Of debris that has turned up, officials note that "none of it had provided information that positively identified the precise location of the aircraft."

Journalists walk near parts of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 near the Grabove village in eastern Ukraine on Nov. 11, 2014.

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Russian Military Involved In Shooting Down Flight MH17, Researchers Say

6:01pm May 07, 2016

by Corey Flintoff

As investigations continue into the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over eastern Ukraine two years ago, the Kremlin has dismissed a new report that directly implicates the Russian military.

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