Aviation accidents and incidents cause of the crash; the minority report suggests an explosion was the likely cause. 239: On March 8, 2014, a Boeing 777-200ER, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, flying from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to Beijing, China, lost contact with air traffic controllers over the South China Sea, deviated from its planned route, and was presumed lost in the southern Indian Ocean. It carried 12 Malaysian crew members and 227 passengers from 15 nations. A multinational search effort, the most extensive and expensive in aviation history, has thus far failed to locate them, though debris from the aircraft were recovered on July 29,
Transport in Kuala Lumpur Asia's largest intermodal transport hub, the Kuala Lumpur Sentral transport hub. The first airport in Kuala Lumpur, Simpang Airport, commenced operation in 1952, and was the main airport for Malaysia until 1965. In 1965 Subang Airport started service. The Kuala Lumpur Mini Bus service is one of the oldest bus services in Malaysia and commenced operation in 1975.Taxis have been a common sight in Kuala Lumpur ever since the 1950s, and in the 1970s and 1980s the Morris Oxford was a common model used as a taxi. Kuala Lumpur's metro or rapid transit system consists of 6 metro lines operated