A Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) aircraft A320 near Jinnah international airport Karachi. PIA spokesperson Abdul Sattar confirmed the crash and added that Flight 8303 was carrying 90 passengers and 8 crew members from Lahore to Karachi. Please upload for updates… UPDATE Both the flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder of PIA A320 have been…
The pilot of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 was in control of the plane “until the end”, French investigators reportedly suspect, after gaining access to “crucial” flight data. The readouts “lend weight” to suspicions that he crashed into the sea in a murder-suicide, they were cited as saying. The revelations based on Boeing data came days…
Malaysia’s transport minister said Sunday that the government is open to new proposals from U.S. technology firm Ocean Infinity or any other companies to resume the hunt for Flight 370, as families of passengers marked the fifth anniversary of the jet’s mysterious disappearance. Ocean Infinity mounted a “no cure, no fee” search for the plane…
A safety report into the disappearance of flight MH370 has concluded that the plane was manually turned around mid-air, rather than being under the control of autopilot, and that “unlawful interference by a third party” could not be ruled out. It also disproved theories that had suggested the pilot and first officer brought the plane…
The search for MH370 by Seabed Constructor appears to be still underway, even though the official search ended this week. ABC Australia reports that several scientists and aviation buffs that have been following the Seabed Constructor’s search on twitter have noticed that the vessel has moved to a new location and have re-deployed it’s undersea…
The four-year hunt for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 has ended with the latest, privately funded search coming to a close. US-based Ocean Infinity had been using a deep-sea vessel to survey a vast area of the southern Indian Ocean. But it found nothing and Malaysia’s government says it has no plans to begin any new…
Malaysia’s new transport minister said the search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 by a private U.S. firm will end on Tuesday next week and there will be no more extensions. Houston-based Ocean Infinity has been searching for the aircraft that disappeared en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8, 2014, with 239 people…
60 Minutes Australia has conducted a special investigation into the disappearance of MH370. The show brought together experts including John Dolan, the former Commissioner of the Australian Transport Safety Bureau, Boeing 777 pilot and instructor Simon Hardy, former Senior Investigator with the Transport Safety Board of Canada, Larry Vance, aviation safety expert Captain John Cox…
Nearly 80,000 square kilometres have been searched since January without finding any sign of the wreckage as the latest search enters its final days. The search enters its final phase this week, more than four years after the jet went down. This comes despite earlier hopes that a 25,000-square-kilometre area most likely to contain the…
A search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 is expected to complete its survey by mid-June, the Southeast Asian nation said on Saturday, as families marked the fourth anniversary of one of aviation’s greatest mysteries. Malaysia agreed to pay U.S. firm Ocean Infinity up to $70 million if it found the plane within 90 days.…
ABC News Australia has exclusively reported of a “power struggle” within the new MH370 search. The report says the Malaysian military wants to replace four civilian air crash investigators with seven RMAF fighter and helicopter pilots with a lot less crash investigation experience. One of the investigators that is to be replaced is the lead…
Ocean Infinity, an American seabed exploration firm, is moving a vessel into position to conduct a private search for MH370. The Norweigian vessel, Seabed Constructor will be used. Seabed Constructor left Durban in South Africa 2 January 2018 and is expected in Perth Australia, 7 February 2018. Ocean Infinity expects to soon be awarded a…
