Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 News

Malaysia Says U.N. Must Make Conflict Zone Air Risk Reporting Mandatory

Malaysia, which suffered two commercial air disasters last year after one jet disappeared and another was shot down over Ukraine, said on Monday the United Nations must make reporting of risks to airlines over conflict zones mandatory. The International Civil …

Mystery Crashes Spawn Deadliest Year for Air Travel in Nearly a Decade

Three crashes which have yet to be fully explained, involving the most modern airliners in the safest phase of flight, made last year the deadliest for air travel in almost a decade. The loss of two Malaysian Air Boeing Co. …

UN Aviation Agency to Propose 15-Minute Flight Tracking Standard

The United Nations aviation agency will propose a new standard that requires commercial aircraft to report their position every 15 minutes as part of a global tracking initiative in the aftermath of the disappearance of a Malaysian jetliner. The loss …

Dutch firm Fugro to Lead Australian Subsea Search for Malaysia Airlines Jet

Dutch oil industry services firm Fugro is to lead Australia’s search of the Indian Ocean seafloor where missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 is believed to lie, hoping to solve the mystery of its disappearance five months ago. Australia on Wednesday …

Malaysia, UK’s Inmarsat Release Satellite Data on Missing Flight MH370

Malaysia’s government and British satellite firm Inmarsat released the data on Tuesday used to determine the path of missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, responding to mounting calls from passengers’ relatives for greater transparency. The data from satellite communications with the …

Malaysian Plane Tragedy Increases Pressure for Plane Tracking after MH370

Four weeks into the hunt for MH370, pressure is building for better ways of tracking aircraft as regulators wrestle with the Malaysian jet’s disappearance armed with only minimal information on the fate of its 227 passengers. As search efforts intensified …

Analysis of Possible Plane Debris Slowed by Vast Size of Satellite Data

Delays in identifying satellite images that may show debris of a missing Malaysian plane in the southern Indian Ocean were due to the vast amounts of data that needed to be analyzed, Australian authorities and the U.S. company that collected …

Freescale Employees Missing on Malaysia Jet Poses Travel Policy Questions

The loss of 20 key Freescale Semiconductor employees in the disappearance of a Malaysian airliner on Saturday raises questions about whether the company should have allowed so many of them to board the same plane, but security experts said that …

Rescuers Scour Sea for Malaysian Airliner Lost in ‘Unprecedented Mystery’

The disappearance of a Malaysian jetliner is an “unprecedented aviation mystery”, a senior official said on Monday, with a massive air and sea search now in its third day failing to find any confirmed trace of the plane or of …