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<div style="float:right; margin-right:2em;">Some [[MH370 News Headlines|MH370 News Headlines]]</div>
<h3>News Background</h3>
<p>Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 departed Kuala Lumpur International Airport on {{Day:-001}} with 12 Crew and 227 Passengers onboard. The destination was the International Airport at Beijing and the expected arrival time was 6:30 am on {{Day:1}}. The aircraft never arrived, no distress message was ever sent, the aircraft did not land at any alternate airport, and the only news was simply that all contact with the aircraft had been lost.</p>
<p>The days passed, with news introduced by phrases like "It has been more than 24 hours since we last heard from MH370...", "It has been more than 48 hours since we lost contact with our flight MH370 from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.", and on {{Day:4}} "As we enter into Day 4, the aircraft is yet to be found."</p>
<p>Each passing day was then numbered "It has been 47 days since MH370 went missing...", until Day 100 was reached on {{Day:100}}. &nbsp; Ahmad Jauhari Yahya, Group Chief Executive Officer, Malaysia Airlines opening statement was "It has been the longest 100 days since the disappearance of our MH370." And Hishammuddin Hussein, Acting Minister of Transport (Malaysia) said "100 days after MH370 went missing, its loss remains a painful void in the hearts of all Malaysians and those around the world."</p>

<p>Media Statements were initially made by Malaysia Airlines and each Statement was numbered in the title, for example <i>Malaysia Airlines MH370 Flight Incident - 20th Media Statement</i> on {{Day:9}}. On that day, Hishammuddin Hussein, Minister of Defence and Acting Minister of Transport, also read a Press Briefing to the media and subsequently provided frequent updates from the Malaysian Government perspective.</p>
<p>On {{Day:132}} Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 was shot down over the Ukraine.</p>
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<h3>News Sources</h3>
<p>The news collected here is generally limited to Media Statements and news summaries from official sources - Malaysia Airlines, the Department of Transport (Malaysia), the Prime Minister (Malaysia), and many others. Most of those resources are no longer available from their original internet location<ref name="official" />. The content presented here was either saved offline before the original sources were removed, or retrieved from the Internet Archive. References link to sources which are currently available, typically the Internet Archive.</p>

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<h3>News Articles - Naming and Indexing</h3>
<p>Articles in this Section are prefixed with MH370News:<ref name="MH370News" /> (this is a MediaWiki Namespace). Media Statements are presented on a separate article page for each day. A naming convention used for these articles uses the format MH370News:Year/Day Number. For example, the page containing news for Day 1 which is Saturday, 8 March 2014 is titled <html><a href="href="#" class="not-active"><i>MH370News:2014/Day 001</i></a></html>, followed by <html><a href="href="#" class="not-active"><i>MH370News:2014/Day 002</i></a></html> etc.</p>

<p>The days merged into years, as the underwater search failed to locate any wreckage, and the Malaysian Government urged the ICAO Annex 13 Investigation Team to complete their report. The <i>Safety Investigation Report</i> was released to the public on {{Day:1606}} (Day 1606). The article containing a press release accompanying the <i>Safety Investigation Report</i> would be named <html><a href="href="#" class="not-active"><i>MH370_News:2018/Day 1606</i></a></html>.</p>
<p>News from 2019 onwards is scant. The <i>Safety Investigation Report</i> provided an unsatisfactory level of closure and the coronavirus pandemic from 2020 interrupted any possibility of further searches. Consequently, Media Statements from this period are simply collected as 'Other' and articles are named <html><a href="href="#" class="not-active"><i>MH370News:Other/Day nnnn</i></a></html>.</p>
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<h3>Documentaries</h3>
<p>Throughout the period since {{Day:1}} there have been many documentaries made, primarily for television audiences. These typically include interviews with experts whose research and opinions are of public interest. However, the content of such programs is generally not 'news' in the sense defined for inclusion in this Section. At this stage, the only items which would constitute News would be the discovery of the aircraft wreckage on the sea floor, or the release of a report or document which had previously been classified.</p>
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<h3>Notes</h3>
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<ref name="MH370News">The words <i>MH370</i> and <i>News</i> have been deliberately joined together for the reason that if the word <i>News</i> is separated and forms part of a link or URL, Browsers may automatically look for, and open, a news reader application. This occurred even if the words were joined like this <i>MH370_News</i>. To avoid an unwanted browser action the two words were joined.</ref>
<ref name="official">Media Statements from official sources were also hosted by the MH370 Official Site, but that too may be offline.</ref>
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