A permanent memorial to honour the 239 people who were on board the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 will be built in Perth, Australia, the closest major city to where the stricken jetliner is thought to be, somewhere in the Southern Indian Ocean.
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 (MH370/MAS370) was a scheduled international passenger flight that disappeared on 8 March 2014 while flying from Kuala Lumpur International Airport, Malaysia, to Beijing Capital International Airport in China.
The aircraft was carrying 12 Malaysian crew members and 227 passengers from 15 nations.
The multinational search effort for the aircraft is the largest and most expensive in aviation history. The search began in the Gulf of Thailand and the South China Sea, where the aircraft’s signal was last detected on secondary surveillance radar, and was soon extended to the Strait of Malacca and Andaman Sea. The aircraft has still not been located, prompting many theories about its disappearance.
