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Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 is believed to crashed in the southern Indian Ocean

Two held over theft from MH370 victims' accounts

Malaysian police have arrested a bank officer and her husband over allegations they stole more than €26,000 from the accounts of four passengers aboard missing flight MH370.

News • 15 Aug 14

Malaysia Airlines shares suspended on Kuala Lumpur stock exchange

Complete overhaul planned for Malaysia Airlines

Malaysia Airlines will be de-listed and taken private ahead of a major restructuring following the double disasters of MH370 and MH17.

News • 08 Aug 14

A grieving family member cries during the memorial service in Melbourne

Australia mourns for MH17 victims

Flags flew at half mast as Australia held a national day of mourning for those killed in the MH17 crash in Ukraine, a day after experts suspended the search for body parts.

News • 07 Aug 14

A major search operation was undertaken after MH370 vanished in March

MH370 survey ships making progress

Two ships surveying the sea floor where Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 is thought to have crashed are making steady progress with a deep-water search to get under way in September, Australian authorities have said.

News • 31 Jul 14

OSCE members observe a minute's silence at the scene (Pic: @OSCE_SM)

Dutch police say MH17 site 'very unstable'

Dutch police heading up the international probe into the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 said that the situation around the crash site remains perilous, despite a small team managing to access the scene.

News • 31 Jul 14

Pro-Russia militants block the road behind Dutch and Australian forensic teams on their way to the MH17 crash site

EU and US impose more sanctions on Russia

The European Union and the United States have imposed further economic sanctions against Russia for its role in the conflict in Ukraine.

News • 29 Jul 14

Ukraine officials said black box data showed 'explosive decompression' brought MH17 down

New sanctions agreed against Russia

US and European leaders have agreed to impose wider sanctions on Russia's financial, defence and energy sectors as Ukraine said its forces advanced towards the crash site of Malaysian flight MH17.

News • 28 Jul 14

Hearses line the runway at Eindhoven Airport as the bodies are brought to the Netherlands from Ukraine

Planes carrying MH17 bodies arrive in Netherlands

The bodies of the first victims from a Malaysian airliner shot down over Ukraine last week have arrived back in the Netherlands amid dignified grief tinged with anger.

News • 23 Jul 14

Officials said evidence gathered so far suggests separatists launched an SA-11 surface-to-air missile

MH17 likely brought down by 'ill-trained' rebels

Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 may have been shot down "by mistake" by ill-trained pro-Russian separatists, US intelligence officials said tonight.

News • 23 Jul 14

Western leaders have complained that rebels have been tampering with vital evidence at the site

Monitors say body parts remain at MH17 crash site

International monitors this evening said body parts still lay scattered at eastern Ukraine's unsecured crash site of downed flight MH17, as Dutch experts said they were given 80 fewer corpses than promised by the rebels.

News • 22 Jul 14

Rebels announced a ceasefire within a 10km radius around the crash site

Ukrainian rebels hand over MH17 black boxes

Pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine have handed over two black boxes recovered from the crash site of the MH17 jet to Malaysian officials.

News • 21 Jul 14

Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 as it left Amsterdam yesterday

Family hit by both Malaysia Airlines tragedies

An Australian family has been struck by both Malaysia Airlines tragedies, losing two members of their extended family in the MH17 crash four months after another couple went missing on MH370.

News • 18 Jul 14

International civil aviation regulators had imposed no restrictions on crossing the area

Plane crash in Ukraine puts focus on flight paths

Airlines including Qantas Airways and Air Berlin altered their flight paths months ago to avoid Ukrainian airspace after fighting flared up in the region, raising questions about why others did not do the same.

News • 18 Jul 14

The plane crashed near Ukraine's border with Russia near the regional capital of Donetsk

Obama says pro-Russian rebels shot down MH17

US President Barack Obama said that a missile fired from rebel-held territory in Ukraine downed a Malaysian passenger jet with the loss of 298 lives.

News • 18 Jul 14

Investigators have little evidence to work with in the search for the missing plane

Search for missing Malaysian plane moves south

The hunt for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 is to shift further south in the Indian Ocean.

News • 26 Jun 14

A major search for Flight MH370 has been under way since it disappeared in March

Possible MH370 crash site 'yet to be explored'

The most likely crash site of a missing Malaysia Airlines jet has yet to be searched, a UK satellite company has claimed.

News • 17 Jun 14

There has been an extensive search for the missing aircraft

Sailor may have seen MH370 on fire in the sky

Australia is investigating an account from a sailor who said she may have seen Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 on fire.

News • 04 Jun 14

The most extensive and expensive search effort in aviation history was carried out earlier this year

No plane wreckage found where 'pings' were heard

The search for a missing Malaysia Airlines jetliner has suffered a further setback, after Australian officials said wreckage from the aircraft was not on the seafloor in the area they had identified.

News • 29 May 14

Dozens of countries took part in the initial search for the missing plane

Satellite data on missing Malaysian plane released

Malaysia's aviation authority has released satellite data used to determine that flight MH370 went down in the southern Indian Ocean, following demands from sceptical relatives of those on board.

News • 27 May 14

The proposals were formed in the wake of the disappearance of a Malaysia Airlines jet

European aviation body plans new black box rules

The European Aviation Safety Agency has drawn up proposals to make it easier to find black boxes from missing aircraft, in the strongest official reaction yet to the disappearance of a Malaysia Airlines jet, according to sources familiar with the matter.

News • 06 May 14

Australia hosted a meeting in Canberra with the transport ministers of Malaysia and China

New MH370 search equipment two months away

Officials have said it could be up to two months before new, more sophisticated equipment will be in the water to help the search for Flight MH370 across what will be largely unmapped ocean floor.

News • 05 May 14

The Bluefin-21 submersible will continue to search the Indian Ocean

Search for missing plane entering 'new phase'

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott has admitted it was "highly unlikely" that any surface wreckage will be found from Flight MH370 as he announced a more intensive underwater search.

News • 28 Apr 14

Pre-deployment checks on the Phoenix Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Artemis

Obama pledges further support for MH370 search

US President Barack Obama said this morning that the United States is fully committed to providing more assets to assist in the search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 in the southern Indian Ocean.

News • 27 Apr 14

The Phoenix International Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) Artemis is involved in the search

Official warns search for MH370 may take years

The undersea search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 is to be extended beyond the small area identified as its most likely resting place as the quest for any sign of the missing plane enters its 50th day.

News • 26 Apr 14

Malaysia Airlines flight MH192 after it turned back to Kuala Lumpur airport

Malaysia Airlines plane makes emergency landing

A Malaysia Airlines plane with 166 people on board has been forced to make an emergency landing in Kuala Lumpur in another blow to its safety image.

News • 20 Apr 14