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The tender for the underwater search was AU$52 million (US$43 million or €35 million)—shared by Australia and Malaysia—for 12 months. [ 293 ] On 17 January 2017, the official search for Flight 370 was suspended after yielding no evidence of the aircraft apart from some marine debris on the coast of Africa. [ 294 ]
At the time of Flight 370's disappearance, Malaysia Airlines was struggling to cut costs to compete with a wave of new, low-cost carriers in the region. In the previous three years, Malaysia Airlines had booked losses of: RM1.17 billion (US$356 million) in 2013, RM433 million in 2012, and RM2.5 billion in 2011. [306]
For the past 10 years it has remained one of the modern era’s greatest mysteries. Yet many experts believe there is still a strong chance MH370 could be located.
The Indian Ocean is the world's third largest, and the search was conducted in a difficult area, where searchers encountered bad weather and average depths of around 4 kilometers (2.5 miles).
They were expecting to travel overnight to Beijing on a routine flight designated MH370. That flight number has become shorthand for the deepest mystery in aviation history.
Malaysia Airlines confirms that flight MH370 has lost contact with Subang Air Traffic Control at 2.40am, today (8 March 2014). Flight MH370, operated on the B777-200 aircraft, departed Kuala Lumpur at 12.41am on 8 March 2014. MH370 was expected to land in Beijing at 6.30am the same day.
The Boeing 777 went missing on its way from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8, 2014. Satellite data analysis showed the plane likely crashed somewhere in the southern Indian Ocean, off the coast ...
The data in the source image (ie. the flight path) that was traced to generate this map is the location of Flight 370. The position of an object is a fact; facts cannot be copyrighted. Background is the "Simplified World Polygons (LSIB) - March 2013" dataset available from the US Department of State - Office of the Geographer (public domain ...