Malaysia Airlines Flight 370

=== International participation ===
Malaysia quickly assembled a Joint Investigation Team (JIT), consisting of specialists from Malaysia, China, the United Kingdom, the United States, and France,<ref name=ATSB />{{Rp|1}}<ref name="BBC_2014-04-06"/> which was led in accordance with [[International Civil Aviation Organization|ICAO]] standards by "an independent investigator in charge".<ref name=NST-Investigation>{{cite web|title=MH370 Tragedy: DCA has authority to analyse black box of missing plane Read more: MH370 Tragedy: DCA has authority to analyse black box of missing plane |url=http://www2.nst.com.my/latest/font-color-red-mh370-tragedy-font-dca-has-authority-to-analyse-black-box-of-missing-plane-1.555040 |website=New Straits Times |access-date=3 July 2014 |date=7 April 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714174533/http://www2.nst.com.my/latest/font-color-red-mh370-tragedy-font-dca-has-authority-to-analyse-black-box-of-missing-plane-1.555040 |archive-date=14 July 2014 }}</ref><ref name="bernama20140329"/><ref name="20140329scmp"/> The team consisted of an airworthiness group, an operations group, and a medical and human factors group. The airworthiness group were tasked with examining issues relating to maintenance records, structures, and systems of the aircraft; the operations group were to review the flight recorders, operations, and meteorology; and the medical and human factors group would investigate psychological, pathological, and survival factors.<ref name="ICAO investigation team"/> Malaysia also announced, on 6&nbsp;April 2014, that it had set up three ministerial committees: a Next of Kin Committee, a committee to organise the formation of the JIT, and a committee responsible for the Malaysian assets deployed in the search effort.<ref name="ICAO investigation team"/> The criminal investigation was led by the [[Royal Malaysia Police]],<ref name="Official accident declaration" />{{Rp|9}} assisted by [[Interpol]] and other relevant international law enforcement authorities.<ref name="AutoVQ-38"/><ref name="AutoVQ-39"/>

On 17 March, Australia took control of co-ordinating the search, rescue, and recovery operations. For the next six weeks, the [[Australian Maritime Safety Authority]] (AMSA) and ATSB worked to determine the search area, correlating information with the JIT and other government and academic sources, while the [[Joint Agency Coordination Centre]] (JACC) coordinated the search efforts.<!-- Further info about the JACC should go in the "Search" section, since this section deals with the INVESTIGATION of events. --> Following the fourth phase of the search, the ATSB took responsibility for defining the search area. In May, a search strategy working group was established by the ATSB<!-- ATSB report (26 June) describes the "search strategy group" on p.1, but later uses "SSWG" (p.35) and on the acronym definitions page says SSWG is "Search Strategy Working Group" (p.44). --> to determine the most likely position of the aircraft at the 00:19&nbsp;UTC (08:19&nbsp;MYT) satellite transmission. The working group included aircraft and satellite experts from: [[Air Accidents Investigation Branch]] (UK), [[Boeing]] (US), [[Defence Science and Technology Group]]{{efn|The agency's name changed on 1 July 2015. It was previously known as the Defence Science and Technology Organisation.<ref name="DST name change"/>}} (Australia), Department of Civil Aviation (Malaysia), [[Inmarsat]] (UK), [[National Transportation Safety Board]] (US), and [[Thales Group|Thales]] (France).<ref name=ATSB />{{Rp|1}}<ref name="AutoVQ-11"/><ref name="AutoVQ-12"/>

{{as of|October 2018}}, France was the only country that was continuing the investigation (by means of its [[Air Transport Gendarmerie]]), with the intention of verifying all of the technical data transmitted, particularly those provided by Inmarsat.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.leparisien.fr/faits-divers/la-france-relance-l-enquete-sur-le-mh-370-05-08-2018-7844253.php|title=La France relance l'enquête sur le MH 370|trans-title=France relaunches investigation into MH 370|date=5 August 2018|first=Jean-Marc|last=Ducos|work=[[Le Parisien]]|language=fr|access-date=13 August 2018|archive-date=8 August 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180808012131/http://www.leparisien.fr/faits-divers/la-france-relance-l-enquete-sur-le-mh-370-05-08-2018-7844253.php|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.lemonde.fr/asie-pacifique/article/2018/10/19/disparition-du-mh370-l-enquete-continue_5371536_3216.html|title=Disparition du vol MH370 : l'enquête continue|trans-title=Disappearance of Flight MH370: the investigation continues|date=19 October 2018|work=[[Le Monde]]|agency=[[Agence France-Presse]]|language=fr|access-date=2 January 2019|archive-date=2 January 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190102073121/https://www.lemonde.fr/asie-pacifique/article/2018/10/19/disparition-du-mh370-l-enquete-continue_5371536_3216.html|url-status=live}}</ref>