Where Is Malaysia Airlines MH370

Contact lost March 8, 2014, 2:15 MYT

Flight MH370, carrying 239 people, departed from Kuala Lumpur on March 7. Five hours after contact was lost, the aircraft was reported missing. As widening search efforts proved futile, the hopes of the families of the crew and passengers began to fade, and 'malaysia airlines' became the year’s ninth-highest global spike.

Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Malaysia, has a population of 1.6 million people. When the MH370 incident happened, searches for the city doubled.

Founded in 1946, Malaysia Airlines flies to 60 destinations worldwide. Searches for the airline spiked over 50x once news of the missing plane broke.

An investigation covering 60,000 km²

After the search zone was extended beyond the South China Sea, searches for 'indian ocean' spiked by over 7x, and 'gulf of thailand' by over 11x.