MH370: The plane that vanished into thin air

Former Malaysian transport minister Anthony Loke Siew Fook looks at the wing fragments of the missing plane on display. - Bernama

KUALA LUMPUR (The Straits Times/Asia News Network): On this day eight years ago, a passenger plane en route to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur went missing, along with the 239 people on board, never to be seen again.

The disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 in 2014 has become one of the biggest unsolved mysteries in aviation history.