Five years after MH370 went missing
On 8 March 2014, Malaysian Airlines flight 370 from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing was lost - literally. Disappearing from the radar 40 minutes after take-off, the transponder of the B777 with 239 people on board also ceased functioning, so that air traffic control could not track the widebody airplane.
From now until 2022, airlines will begin plugging into a satellite-based system that will track their planes at all times, anywhere on earth.
To find the missing Triple Seven itself, the longest and costliest search ever undertaken for a commercial airplane was undertaken - without any "great" success, as only 32 parts of the plane have been identified so far.
Malaysia's transport ministry says it is awaiting "fresh proposals and credible leads" in order to resume the search which was interrupted in 2018. (ah)