239 : On March 8 , 2014 , a Boeing 777-200ER , Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 , flying from Kuala Lumpur , Malaysia , to Beijing , China , lost contact with air traffic controllers over the South China Sea , deviated from its planned route , and was presumed lost in the southern Indian Ocean . It carried 12 Malaysian crew members and 227 passengers from 15 nations . A multinational search effort , the most extensive and expensive in aviation history , has thus far failed to locate them , though debris from the aircraft were recovered on July 29 , 2015 , on Réunion Island . Numerous theories have been offered to explain the disappearance of the flight , but none has been confirmed
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370
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