Malaysia Airlines Flight 370

=== 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" />