How many people were on Flight MH370 when it disappeared?

Almost ten years ago, a commercial aircraft went missing during a flight from Malaysia to China. It sparked a four-year search that became the most expensive in aviation history, as authorities and private contractors searched for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 and an indication of what went wrong.

Now, on the ninth anniversary of its disappearance, Netflix has dropped a new docuseries that recalls its tragic true story. MH370: The Plane That Disappeared uses powerful archives to reconstruct the night of the disappearance and explores some of the most contentious theories around what may have happened.

Set across seven countries, the series also features interviews with family members of the many passengers on board the ill-fated flight. But exactly how many people were on Flight MH370 when it disappeared?

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How many people were on Flight MH370 when it disappeared?

MH370 disappeared with 239 people on board. This included 12 crew members and 227 passengers from 14 different countries.

All of the crew members – two pilots and 10 cabin crew – were Malaysian. Of the 227 passengers, 153 were Chinese and 38 were Malaysian.

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The remaining passengers were from 12 different countries: Australia, Canada, France, India, Indonesia, Iran, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Russia, Taiwan, Ukraine and the United States. Many of the passengers included several family members, including six members of a single Chinese family.

There were also several children on board Flight MH370, with some aged as young as two, three and four years old. One of the youngest passengers was 23-month-old Wang Moheng, who was returning home to China from a week’s holiday with his mother and father and two grandparents, the BBC reported.

The oldest person on board was 79-year-old Lou Baotang, who was travelling in a group of 24 Chinese artists and five staff who were returning to China after attending a cultural exhibition in Kuala Lumpur.

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