MAS reschedules MH740/741 flights after plane’s belly hit by car


PUTRAJAYA: Malaysia Airlines (MAS) has retimed its MH740/741 flights after the aircraft's belly was hit by car at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) on Thursday.

The B737-800 aircraft was scheduled to depart to Yangon (Flight MH740) at 10:05am but due to the incident, passengers were transferred to a different aircraft which took off at 10:45am the same day, MAS said in a statement here.

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