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
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 time would show that Malaysia had done its best, had helped co-ordinate the search, and would continue to support. Najib went on to emphasise the need for the aviation industry to "not only learn the lessons of MH370 but implement them," saying in closing that "the world learned from <nowiki>[</nowiki>Air France Flight 447<nowiki>]</nowiki> but didn't act. The same mistake must not be made again." Opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim criticised the Malaysian government regarding its response to Flight 370's disappearance and the military's response when Flight 370 turned back over the Malay Peninsula; he called for an international committee to take