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A French aviation expert believes he may have found the wreckage of MH370 – the Malaysia Airlines flight which disappeared off the coast of Malaysia in March 2014. Xavier Tytelman, a former military pilot who now specialises in aviation security, was contacted on Wednesday morning by a man living on the island of Reunion, in the Indian Ocean. The man sent Mr Tytelman a series of photos showing wreckage of a plane, which the Frenchman said could possibly be the missing jet.

The battery of the underwear locator beacon of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 Flight Data Recorder (FDR) had expired in December 2012. Flight MH370 vanished on 8 March 2014. The 584-page report, titled Factual Information Safety Investigation for MH370 released by Malaysian government on Sunday....

A new documentary is set to reveal that satellite data from the mysteriously downed jet indicates that it flew for hours after losing contact with flight control.. Aviation experts have gone over the evidence, and are set to lay out their theories in Malaysian 370: What Happened?, which screens on Sunday, March 8, on National Geographic. They believe the doomed jet made three turns after the losing contact - taking it west towards Antarctica.

Malaysia Airlines website was hacked by hackers who claimed to be from the "Lizard Squad". The group known for denial-of-service attacks. The hacking group said on its Twitter that it was going to release data in Malaysiaairlines.com servers soon.

In his latest posting on the missing flight MH370 and adding to the conspiracy theories about its disappearance, Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad speculated that "someone" is not giving the full picture of how the Boeing aircraft disappeared more than two months ago. In coming to the defence of Malaysia and national aircraft carrier Malaysia Airlines, the former prime minister again said aircraft manufacturer Boeing and certain agencies have the capacity to take over "uninterrupted control" of commercial airliners.

A new militant group uncovered by Malaysian police last week had trained with guns in remote palm plantations and forests, and some weekend sessions were paid for by a foreign businessman, it was reported yesterday. Eleven members of the unnamed group, including a woman, were nabbed in Selangor and Kedah recently. Police suspect the members were planning to launch a bombing campaign against "Western and American" targets in Malaysia, including foreign embassies and entertainment outlets in the popular Bangsar area.

Sosus consisted of seabed-mounted hydrophones connected by underwater cables to facilities on land. The hydrophone arrays were installed mainly on continental shelf slopes and other locations optimised for undistorted long-range acoustic eavesdropping. The combination of location within the ocean and the sensitivity of the hydrophones allowed Sosus to detect sound transmissions of less than a watt at ranges of several hundred kilometres. The system was sensitive enough to hear Soviet submarine periscopes being raised hundreds of kilometres away.

Anwar defended the aircraft's pilot, 53-year-old Zaharie Ahmad Shah, who is also a personal friend and a member of his political party. "If you say or suggest that the pilot may have been involved, what about the concealing (of information)?" he told the Telegraph. "He could not have concealed the radar readings. He could not have instructed the air force to remain completely silent."

Malaysia's Department of Civil Aviation (DCA) has said the last words from the cockpit of missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 were "Good night Malaysian three seven zero". "We would like to confirm that the last conversation in the transcript between the air traffic controller and the cockpit is at 0119 (Malaysian Time) and is "Good night Malaysian three seven zero," DCA said in a short statement issued on Monday night. "The authorities are still doing forensic investigation to determine whether those last words from the cockpit were by the pilot or the co-pilot,'' said the statement. It was reported earlier that the last words from the flight were "Alright, goodnight", spoken by co-pilot Fariq Abdul Hamid.

To try to turn things around at MAS, Khazanah Nasional, Malaysia's sovereign wealth fund and the controlling shareholder of MAS, hand-picked Mr Ahmad in 2011 to lead the company at a tumultuous period. He set out to return MAS to profitability by this year by focusing on filling seats and increasing staff productivity. Last October, his contract was renewed for another three years. People who know him from when he was Malakoff managing director said he had been chosen for his ability to make tough decisions.