Malaysia Airlines Flight 370

=== 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"/>