Malaysia Airlines Flight 370

== Passengers and crew ==
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! scope="col" | Nation<ref name=20140308malaysiaairlines/>
! scope="col" data-sort-type="number"| Count
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! scope="row" | {{flagicon|Australia}} Australia
| 6
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! scope="row" | {{flagicon|Canada}} Canada
| 2
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! scope="row" | {{flagicon|China}} China
| 153{{efn|Including one Hong Kong national.<ref name="AutoVQ-31"/>}}
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! scope="row" | {{flagicon|France}} France
| 4
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! scope="row" | {{flagicon|India}} India<ref>{{cite web |author=Singh |first=Ranjit |date=12 March 2014 |title=MH370: Five Indian nationals identified |url=http://english.astroawani.com/news/show/mh370-five-indian-nationals-identified-31687 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141012212539/http://english.astroawani.com/news/show/mh370-five-indian-nationals-identified-31687 |archive-date=12 October 2014 |access-date=29 May 2014 |publisher=astro AWANI}}</ref>
| 5
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! scope="row" | {{flagicon|Indonesia}} Indonesia
| 7
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! scope="row" |{{flagicon|Iran}} Iran
| 2{{efn|The manifest initially released by Malaysia Airlines listed an Austrian and an Italian. These were subsequently identified as two Iranian nationals who boarded Flight 370 using stolen passports.<ref name="BBC_2014-03-11_a"/>}}
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! scope="row" | {{flagicon|Malaysia}} Malaysia
| 50{{efn|38 passengers and 12 crew.}}
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! scope="row" | {{flagicon|Netherlands}} Netherlands
| 1
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! scope="row" | {{flagicon|New Zealand}} New Zealand
| 2
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! scope="row" | {{flagicon|Russia}} Russia
| 1
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! scope="row" | {{flagicon|Taiwan}} Taiwan<!-- DO NOT MERGE TAIWANESE PASSENGER WITH PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA. REFERENCED SOURCES PROVIDE SEPARATE LISTING FOR PASSENGER FROM TAIWAN ("18, CHUANG/HSIULINGMS, TWN, 45"). SEE TALK PAGE FOR MORE ON THIS SETTLED ISSUE. -->
| 1
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! scope="row" | {{flagicon|Ukraine}} Ukraine
| 2
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! scope="row" | {{flagicon|United States}} United States
| 3
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!'''Total (14 Nationalities)'''|| style="text-align:center;" |'''239'''
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The aircraft was carrying 12 Malaysian crew members and 227 passengers from 14 different nations.<ref name="BBC who was on board">{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-26503469|title=Missing Malaysia plane: The passengers on board MH370|date=17 January 2017|work=[[BBC News]]|access-date=24 January 2019|archive-date=24 January 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190124170939/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-26503469|url-status=live}}</ref> On the day of the disappearance, Malaysia Airlines released the names and nationalities of the passengers and crew, based on the [[Manifest (transportation)|flight manifest]].<ref name=20140308malaysiaairlines/> The passenger list was later modified to include two Iranian passengers travelling on stolen [[Austrian passport|Austrian]] and [[Italian passport]]s.<ref name="BBC_2014-03-11_a"/><!-- Original list had 1 Austrian & 1 Italian (15 nations), but these turned out to be 2 Iranians (reduced to 14 nations) -->

=== Crew ===
All 12 crew members—two pilots and 10 cabin crew—were Malaysian citizens.<ref name=20140308malaysiaairlines/>
* The [[pilot in command]] was 53-year-old Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah from [[Penang]]. He joined Malaysia Airlines as a cadet pilot in 1981, and after training and receiving his commercial pilot's licence, he became a [[Second officer (aeronautics)|second officer]] with the airline in 1983. He was promoted to captain of [[Boeing 737-400]] airliners in 1991, captain of [[Airbus A330-300]] in 1996, and captain of [[Boeing 777-200]] in 1998. He had been a type-rating instructor and a type-rating examiner since 2007. Zaharie had a total of 18,365 hours of flying experience.<ref name="Interim report-March 2015" />{{Rp|13}}<ref name="20140308straitstimes"/><ref name="20140309in"/>
* The [[First officer (aeronautics)|co-pilot]] was 27-year-old First Officer Fariq Abdul Hamid. He joined Malaysia Airlines as a cadet pilot in 2007; after becoming a second officer of Boeing 737-400 airliners, he was promoted to first officer of the Boeing 737-400 in 2010 and then transitioned to the Airbus A330-300 in 2012. In November 2013, he began training as first officer of Boeing 777-200 aircraft. Flight 370 was his final training flight, and he was scheduled to be examined on his next flight. Fariq had accumulated 2,763 hours of flying experience.<ref name="Interim report-March 2015" />{{Rp|14}}<ref name="20140308nst"/><ref name="cnn-firstoff"/>

=== Passengers ===
Of the 227 passengers, 153 were Chinese citizens,<ref name="BBC who was on board" /> including a group of 19 artists with six family members and four staff returning from a calligraphy exhibition of their work in [[Kuala Lumpur]]; 38 passengers were Malaysian. The remaining passengers were from 12 different countries.<ref name=20140308malaysiaairlines/><ref name="20140309washingtonpost" /> Twenty passengers, 12 of whom were from Malaysia and eight from China, were employees of [[Freescale Semiconductor]].<ref name="20140309washingtonpost" /><ref name="20140308edition" /><ref name="20140309reuters" />

Through a 2007 agreement with Malaysia Airlines, [[Tzu Chi]] (an international Buddhist organisation) immediately sent specially trained teams to Beijing and Malaysia to give emotional assistance to passengers' families.<ref name="AutoVQ-32" /><ref name="20140320npr" /> The airline also sent its own team of caregivers and volunteers<ref name=20140309thestar /> and agreed to bear the expense of bringing family members of the passengers to Kuala Lumpur and providing them with accommodation, medical care, and counselling.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.themalaymailonline.com/malaysia/article/caregivers-from-malaysia-australia-assigned-to-families-of-passengers-onboa |title=Caregivers from Malaysia, Australia assigned to families of passengers onboard MH370 |website=The Malay Mail |date=9 March 2014 |access-date=30 March 2014 |archive-date=11 March 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140311165415/http://www.themalaymailonline.com/malaysia/article/caregivers-from-malaysia-australia-assigned-to-families-of-passengers-onboa |url-status=live }}</ref> Altogether, 115 family members of the Chinese passengers flew to Kuala Lumpur.<ref name="AutoVQ-33" /> Some other family members chose to remain in China, fearing they would feel too isolated in Malaysia.<ref name="20140310nst" />