Timeline of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 of seafloor topography and continued until December that year. An underwater search began in October 2014 but failed to recover anything of value and was suspended in January 2017 after searching of the southern Indian Ocean. On 29 July 2015, a flaperon from Flight 370 was discovered on a beach in Réunion, approximately west of the underwater search area; this location is consistent with drift from the underwater search area over the intervening 16 months. Flight 370 took off from Kuala Lumpur International Airport at 00:42 local time (MYT; ) en route to Beijing Capital International Airport, where it was
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