MH370: 10 years on, what we know – and what we don’t – about the vanishing Malaysia Airlines jet

Missing persons: MH370 was lost with 239 passengers and crew on board - (Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

Late at night on 7 March 2014, 227 passengers and a dozen crew members prepared to board a Malaysia AirlinesBoeing 777 at Kuala Lumpur airport. They were expecting to travel overnight to Beijing on a routine flight designated MH370.

That flight number has become shorthand for the deepest mystery in aviation history. The relatives of the victims have endured 10 years of not knowing the fate of their loved ones.