Joint Agency Coordination Centre of contact for information about the search for media and families of Flight 370 passengers. On 8 March 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappeared en route from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia to Beijing, China with 239 persons aboard; a search in the South China Sea and Gulf of Thailand was promptly initiated near the aircraft's last voice contact with air traffic control and final contact with secondary radar (the type of radar used by air traffic control). A week after the disappearance, Malaysia announced that military radar determined that the aircraft had traveled west across the Malay Peninsula after being lost
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