Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 disappeared from radar on 07 March 2014. The jet was carrying 239 people (12 crew and 227 passengers) and has yet to be found despite a multi-national search.

The aircraft departed from Kuala Lumpur at 16:41 UTC and was scheduled to arrive in Beijing at 22:30, but Vietnamese air traffic controllers lost contact with the aircraft at 17:30 (01:30 local time).

An international search began for the aircraft in the South China Sea, the last known location of the jet, but four days later no sign of the aircraft had been found. The search area has since been expanded to the Malacca Strait, on the western coast of Malaysia. And on 15 March the search shifted to as far as the Indian Ocean.

There has been much speculation regarding the fate of the aircraft. No debris has been found and though several oil slicks have been investigated it was determined that they were not from the aircraft. Two passengers aboard the jet were under suspicion, following an investigation that revealed that they were using stolen passports, but Interpol has since dismissed any terrorist connections for the two passengers.

No distress signals have been received from the plane and it remains unknown what happened. It has been noted by investigators that it is very unusual for an airliner to simply disappear in such a manner.

Both naval vessels and aircraft from at least ten different countries participated in the search. Satellite imagery was employed to search for any evidence of the plane, both before and after it disappeared. China utilised ten of its satellites to image the search area. The United States imaging corporation, DigitalGlobe, started a crowdsourcing campaign in which over two million volunteers have studied DigitalGlobe images of the area.

More than 20 countries participated in the search and analysts believe that the plane turned back after take-off and passed over Malaysia and then headed toward the Indian Ocean. Evidence suggests the plane flew for several hours after communication with air traffic controllers was lost. Satellite images have revealed suspected debris in a number of locations, but despite efforts to search an area of the southern Indian Ocean no trace of the plane has been found.

On 29 January 2015, the Malaysian government officially called off the search for MH370. They have declared that the loss of the aircraft was an accident, and the crew and passengers are presumed deceased.