Lawyers

• MH370 Tragedy May Have Caused By Electrical Failures, says US Lawsuit

  Such failures would have prevented the crew from properly flying the aircraft or communicating with the ground, it says.

• Malaysia Airlines: Carrier sued by a brother of a passenger who vanished with MH370

  A brother of an American man who died from flight MH370 is suing the Malaysian carrier under the Montreal Convention.

• Malaysia Airlines Lifts Check-in Baggage ban to Paris, Amsterdam, after social media bash

  After angry passengers left angry posts on social media against the airline, Malaysia Airlines lifted the ban on check-in baggage for flights destined to Paris and Amsterdam just 24 hours after imposing the prohibition.

• MH370 debris exposes divisions over air crash investigations

  Air crash investigators risk being sidelined in a tussle to unlock the secrets of lost flight MH370, fuelling concerns that their role in making flying safer could be diminished.

• Wing part washed up on beach is from missing MH370, Malaysia confirms

  A piece of a wing that washed up on an Indian Ocean island beach last week was part of the wreckage of Malaysian Airlines flight MH370, Malaysia said on Thursday, confirming the discovery of the first trace of the plane since it vanished last year.

• Australia says initial MH370 debris drift models gave wrong clues

  Initial models of where potential debris from a missing Malaysia Airlines passenger jet might first wash up had incorrectly identified Indonesia as the most likely location, the Australian body leading the search said on Wednesday.

• Dutch seek U.N. tribunal to prosecute downing of Malaysian plane

  The Dutch government is lobbying its political allies for the establishment of a U.N. tribunal to prosecute suspects in the downing of a Malaysia Airlines plane over territory held by pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine a year ago, Prime Minister Mark Rutte said on Friday.

• Search area for Flight MH370 to double if plane not found

  Government ministers from Australia, China and Malaysia on Thursday said they would double the search area for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 if wreckage is not found in the current target area.

• Malaysia Airlines website targeted by hacker group 'Cyber Caliphate'

  A group calling itself "Official Cyber Caliphate" said it hacked on Monday the official website of national carrier Malaysia Airlines (MAS), but the airline said its data servers remained intact and passenger bookings were not affected.

• After disasters, stricken Malaysia Airlines staff brace for job cuts

  As bodies from downed Flight MH17 were brought home last week, a group of Malaysia Airlines (MASM.KL) flight attendants, in black mourning headscarves contrasting with their pink and turquoise uniforms, sobbed and clung to each other in grief.