The airplane, a Boeing 777-200ER operated by Malaysia Airplane, last made voice contact with air traffic control at 01:19 MYT, 8 March (17:19 UTC, 7 March) when it was over the South China Sea, less than an hour after it take-off. The airplane disappeared from air traffic controllers' radar displays at 01:22 MYT, but was still monitored on army radar as it deviated westwards from its planned flight path and surpassed the organ transplant. It remains the variety of Malaysian army radar at 02:22 while over the Andaman Sea, 200 seafaring miles (370 km) north-west of Penang in north-western Malaysia. The airplane was carrying 12 Malaysian associates and 227 travellers from 15 countries.

The international search effort for missing airplane was the biggest and most expensive aircraft search for in history. The search for began in the Gulf of Thailand and the South China Sea, where the aircraft's indication was last recognized on additional monitoring radar, and was soon extended to the Strait of Malacca and Andaman Sea. Research of satellite between the airplane and Inmarsat's satellite system recognized that the flight on-going until at least 08:19 and went south into the southern India Sea, although the accurate place cannot be recognized.

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