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There have been suggestions such a declaration could see the search called off

Malaysia Airlines denies MH370 to be declared lost

Relatives of MH370 passengers have criticised Malaysia Airlines after an official reportedly said authorities would set a date to announce the plane "lost".

News • 11 Nov 14

The search area and ocean floor in the Indian Ocean off Western Australia

Search for MH370 moves further south

Investigators have confirmed that the priority search area for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 has moved further south as end-of-flight scenarios indicated it may have spiralled into the Indian Ocean.

News • 08 Oct 14

The Fugro Discovery search vessel moored at Fremantle Port, Perth, before it joins the Go Phoenix in the search

New vessel joins search for MH370

The next phase in the search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 began this morning, the Australian agency leading the probe said, with a new vessel resuming the underwater hunt.

News • 06 Oct 14

A painstaking international search has failed to find any trace of the plane

Six months since MH370 disappeared

Today marks the six month anniversary of the disappearance of MH370, which vanished without trace en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people on board.

News • 08 Sep 14

Tony Abbott said the search could take up to a year

'Reasonable chance' of finding MH370

A new underwater hunt for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 had a "reasonable chance" of finding the plane, Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said this morning.

News • 20 Aug 14

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

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

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

An extensive search has turned up no sign of the MH370 wreckage so far

MH370 families to offer reward for information

Several families of those aboard Flight MH370 have launched a drive to raise $5m to reward any insider who comes forward and resolves the mystery of the plane's disappearance.

News • 08 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

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

Bluefin-21 has been scouring the seabed in an area where undersea transmissions were detected

Australia to host meeting on MH370 search

Australia will host a meeting with Malaysia and China next week to determine the way forward in the frustrating search for flight MH370, officials said in Kuala Lumpur today.

News • 02 May 14

The search for MH370 is already set to be the most costly in aviation history

Malaysia seeks study on real-time plane tracking

Malaysia's Transport Ministry is recommending that the ICAO examines the safety benefits of introducing a standard for real-time tracking of commercial air transport aircraft.

News • 01 May 14

Most of the aircraft involved in the search have left the area

Intensive aerial search for MH370 has ended

The intensive aerial search for surface wreckage from Flight MH370 officially ended today.

News • 30 Apr 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

Bluefin-21 is craned over the side of Australian Defence Vessel Ocean Shield in the search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH 370

Deep-sea drone continues search for MH370

Hopes that a deep sea drone scouring the Indian Ocean floor might soon turn up a missing Malaysian jetliner were fading, as the remote-controlled submarine embarked on a fifth mission with still no sign of wreckage.

News • 18 Apr 14

The Bluefin-21 mapped the search area on its third attempt (Pic: EPA)

Mini-sub scans Indian Ocean search area

A mini-submersible has completed its first full scan of the seabed in the remote Indian Ocean as part of the search operation for the missing Malaysian Airlines plane.

News • 17 Apr 14

Bluefin-21 has been redeployed and is continuing its underwater search (Pic: EPA)

Technical problems curtail ocean floor search

The search for the Malaysia Airlines plane deep in the Indian Ocean was cut short again today when technical problems forced a US Navy underwater drone to surface without finding anything.

News • 16 Apr 14

The launch of the Blue-fin 21 marked a new phase in the six week search for flight MH370

Underwater drone use halted in Malaysia search

A US Navy underwater drone sent to search for a missing Malaysian jetliner on the floor of the Indian Ocean has had its first mission cut short after exceeding its 4.5km depth limit.

News • 15 Apr 14

Tim McAlevey of the Royal New Zealand Air Force flying a P-3 Orion during a search to locate missing Malaysia Airways Flight MH370

Claims Malaysia co-pilot tried to make phone call

Investigators probing the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 suspect the co-pilot of the jet tried to make a phone call after the plane was diverted from its scheduled route, according to a newspaper report.

News • 12 Apr 14