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MH370 flight disappeared in 2014 while flying to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur with 239 people on board.

The position to suspend the search was contained in a joint statement from Chinese, Australian and Malaysian officials

According to the investigation, the missile approached the aircraft almost head-on, after the forward section was hit, it took 1 to 1.5 minutes for the rest of the aeroplane to hit the ground

Mueller took over as chief executive of the ailing Malaysian national carrier in May, a few months after the state-owned sovereign fund, Khazanah Nasional, unveiled a $2 billion plan to resuscitate the company

The Chief Executive, Christoph Mueller, said while most of the employees would be rehired, 6,000 of them would not be taken back on, as the company struggled to cut costs

Norsharidah Awang, Court Judge, said the former bank employee, Nur-Shila Kanan, 34, was sentenced to six years in jail after admitting 12 counts of illegally obtaining $21,600 from the bank accounts of people aboard the missing plane

Azharuddin Abdul Rahman, Chief of Malaysia’s Department of Civil Aviation, said after 327 days and based on all available data, it was highly unlikely anyone had survived

Dolan disclosed that a new underwater search began in early in October and that so far, approximately 1,200 square kilometers of the ocean floor had been covered.
The ATSB commissioner stated that the search was focusing on a long, narrow arc in the southern Indian Ocean where MH370 made its last satellite communication

Abdul-Ghany said the funds from the accounts of three passengers on the missing airliner were apparently transferred to a fourth account owned by another passenger

The jet, which was flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, came down near the village of Grabovo, part of the area controlled by pro-Russia separatists, on Thursday

The satellite data proposed that the aircraft turned south across the Indian Ocean after flying near the Indonesian Island of Sumatra

Azharuddin Abdul-Rahman, the Chief of the Department of Civil Aviation, said in Kuala Lumpur that the $8.6 million was only the sum spent by Malaysian agencies.
Abdul-Rahman said government does not know how much other countries spent

For the second time since Flight MH370 disappeared after leaving Kuala Lumpur on March 8, experts are having to rely on metronomic whispers from the plane’s electronic systems to try to track it down

The Chief of China Maritime Search and Rescue Centre, He Jianzhong, called upon Chinese search forces to increase communication with Australian counterparts and coordinate search operations under water, on ocean surface and in the air

Houston stressed that the signals had not been verified as being linked to Flight 370, which was traveling from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to Beijing when it disappeared March 8 with 239 people on board

The Australian Maritime Safety Authority said the objects had been analysed and a spokesman, Jesse Platts, said: “They have nothing to do with the missing flight

The companies started the process of paying out to policy holder’s relatives after Malaysian Prime Minister, Najib Razak, said the flight was lost

The Australian Maritime Safety Authority said that all aircraft were returning to Perth and all ships were leaving the search area

Hishammuddin Hussein, the Malaysian Acting Transport Minister, said at a news conference on Wednesday in Kuala Lumpur, that the latest sightings came as searchers stepped up efforts to find some trace of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370

The large objects, which Australian officials said were spotted by satellite four days ago in one of the remotest parts of the globe, are the most promising find in days as searchers scour a vast area for the plane lost with 239 people on board