Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 Malaysian. The remaining passengers were from 13 different countries. Twenty passengers—12 of whom were from Malaysia and eight from China—were employees of Freescale Semiconductor. By a 2007 agreement with Malaysia Airlines, Tzu Chi—an international Buddhist organisation—immediately sent specially trained teams to Beijing and Malaysia to give emotional assistance to passengers' families. The airline also sent its own team of caregivers and volunteers and agreed to bear the expense of bringing family members of the passengers to Kuala Lumpur and providing them with accommodation, medical care, and counselling. Altogether, 115 family members of the Chinese passengers flew to Kuala Lumpur. Some
Search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 to begin passage to Singapore, where it will be demobilized from search activities. On 17 January 2017, the MV "Fugro Equator" left the search area after the search of the entire underwater search area was completed. The same day, a joint communiqué is issued by the JACC announcing that the search for Flight 370 was suspended. The suspension of the search is in accord with a July 2016 agreement between Australia, Malaysia, and China that the search would be suspended, not ended, upon the completion of the search of the search area if it yields no evidence of Flight 370