article_snippet: For months after MH370 disappeared, Malaysian officials reported details of the search to next of kin and the public.
article_snippet: Sunday, a year to the day after a plane disappeared, the international independent investigation committee released an interim report on the disappearance of MH370.
article_snippet: an interim report on the disappearance of MH370 also revealed that the battery of the underwater locator beacon on a plane's flight data recorder had expired more than a year before the battery of the underwater locator beacon on the plane's flight data recorder disappearance.
article_snippet: The battery on a plane's other so-called black box, the cockpit voice recorder, had been replaced as scheduled, and remained within the battery of the underwater locator beacon on the plane's flight data recorder expiry date, an interim report on the disappearance of MH370 said.
article_snippet: CNN's Pamela Boykoff and Jethro Mullen contributed to an interim report on the disappearance of MH370.