The type 's apparent fourth hull-loss occurred on March 8 , 2014 when a 777-200ER carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew , en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing as Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 , was reported missing . Air Traffic Control 's last reported coordinates for the aircraft were over the South China Sea at . After the search for the aircraft began , Malaysia 's prime minister announced on March 24 , 2014 that after analysis of new satellite data it was now to be assumed " beyond reasonable doubt " that the aircraft had crashed in the Indian Ocean and there were no survivors . The cause remains unknown , but the Malaysian Government declared it was an accident in January 2015 . On July 29 , 2015 , an item later identified as a flaperon strongly suspected to be from the missing aircraft was found on the island of Réunion in the western Indian Ocean
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370
Boeing 777