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 August 2016, the sixth Boeing 777 hull-loss occurred, when Emirates Flight 521 crashed while landing and began burning at Dubai Airport. Malaysia Airlines released the names and nationalities of the 227 passengers and 12 crew members, based on the flight manifest, later modified to include two Iranian passengers traveling on stolen passports. All 12 crew members, two pilots and 10 cabin staff, were Malaysian citizens. Of the 227 passengers, 152 were Chinese citizens, including a group of 19 artists with six family members and four staff returning from a calligraphy exhibition of their work in Kuala Lumpur; 38 passengers were