KUALA LUMPUR, Mar 8 — Boeing, the makers of the missing plane in Malaysia Airlines (MAS) flight MH 370, announced that it has assembled a technical team to aid in the investigations.
The plane-maker also expressed is sympathies to the families of the passengers aboard the Boeing 777 that disappeared from radar in the early hours of today.
“Boeing offers its deepest concern the families of those aboard missing Malaysian [sic] Airlines flight MH370.
“Boeing is assembling a team to provide technical assistance to investigating authorities,” it said in a statement on its website today.
Flight MH370 is a Boeing 777-2H6ER aircraft that was purchased in 2002, bearing the registration number 9M-MRO.
The Boeing was built on April 2002 and delivered to MAS on May 31, 2002, according to the database in Aviation Week, a global aviation industry service provider, making it nearly 12 years old.
The last crash involving a 777 with the same engine was on January 17, 2008, when a British Airways Boeing 777-236ER flying from Beijing to London crash-landed at Heathrow airport.
Malaysia’s worst plane crash involved a Boeing 737-200 — MH653 — that crashed into a swamp in Tanjong Kupang in Johor on December 4, 1977, killing the people onboard.
