Malaysia Airlines Tragedy

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  MH370 Victims' Relatives To Meet Australian Searchers

  Relatives of some of the 239 passengers and crew lost in the missing Malaysia airliner will fly to Australia on Tuesday in a quest to better understand developments in the search for wreckage and to find some closure more than two years after the tragedy, the daughter of a missing passenger said today.

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  Dutch Remember MH17 Victims, Hunt Those Responsible

  Dutch flags will fly at half-mast Friday as families remember those killed when flight MH17 was shot down over eastern Ukraine a year ago, with all efforts now focused on catching those responsible.

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  Flight MH370 Report: Air Traffic Control Supervisor Was Sleeping on Duty

  The air traffic control supervisor was asleep on duty during the crucial hours following the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 last year, an interim report into the tragedy has said.

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  'Our Planes Never Get Lost,' AirAsia Had Claimed in April

  Malaysia-based budget carrier AirAsia, whose aircraft disappeared with 162 people on board on Sunday, had claimed earlier this year that its planes "never get lost".

• Twin Disasters Spark Malaysia Airlines Crew Resignations

  Nearly 200 cabin crew have resigned from Malaysia Airlines which was hit by two deadly tragedies this year, the carrier said Tuesday, and some reportedly cited fears for their safety.

• Malaysia Airlines Mulling Name Change to Boost Reputation: Report

  Reeling under the pressure of two catastrophic aviation tragedies, Malaysia Airlines is mulling a name change and restructuring of routes in a bid to repair its reputation, a media report has said.

• Twin Tragedies Push Malaysia Airlines to the Brink

  Any airline would struggle with the devastating impact of losing one jet full of passengers, especially if it had already been bleeding money for years.

• Air Tragedies Bring Grief without Order

  When air travel goes wrong, the modern world has given us a script to follow.

• A Bad Week for Aviation as Tragedies Come in a Cluster

  Nearly 300 passengers are killed when their plane is shot out of the sky over eastern Ukraine. Airlines suspend flights to Israel's largest airport after rocket attacks. Two airliners crash during storms, and yet another disappears in West Africa. Aviation has suffered one of its worst weeks in memory.

• MH17 Has Strong Echoes of 1983 Korean Tragedy

  The downing of a Malaysian airliner over Ukraine has stirred memories of a 1983 incident when a Korean passenger jet was shot down by Soviet fighters in what then US president Ronald Reagan called a mid-air "massacre".

• Australian Watchdog Warns of MH17 Scams

  Australia's consumer watchdog has warned people to be wary of scams seeking to take advantage of the Malaysia Airlines MH17 tragedy, saying false Facebook profiles had already been set up.

• Singapore Airlines Says Sorry for Social Media Posts After MH17

  After getting a drubbing on social media for making statements deemed "insensitive" after the downing of flight MH17, Singapore Airlines Ltd (SIA) issued a public apology on Saturday and expressed solidarity with families affected by the air tragedy.

• President Pranab Offers Condolences to King of Malaysia Over MH17 Crash

  President Pranab Mukherjee deeply condoled the crash of the Malaysian Airlines passenger jet in eastern Ukraine and expressed grief and sympathy over the tragedy which has claimed 298 lives.

• Personal Tragedies at Heart of Malaysia's Second National Air Disaster

  Malaysian Airlines flight attendant Sanjid Singh was not scheduled to be working on board doomed Flight MH17, but had swapped with a colleague - just months after his wife, also an attendant, had swapped her shift to avoid Flight MH370.

• Australian Family Hit By Both MH17, MH370 Tragedies

  An Australian family has been struck by both Malaysia Airlines tragedies, losing two members of their extended family in the MH17 crash four months after another couple went missing on MH370.