2014/03 - MH370 Search Operation

Exercise/Operation

MH370 Search Operation

Utility Aircraft

Lockheed C-130 Hercules

Fokker 50

Year

2014

The RSAF supported the MH370 search with air and sea assets, including C-130s, a naval helicopter, and maritime patrol aircraft.

On 9 March 2014, Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 vanished from the radars en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. The SAF deployed various air and sea assets in this Search and Locate operation, including C-130 transport planes, the Formidable-class frigate RSS Steadfast with a Sikorsky S-70B naval helicopter on board, submarine support and rescue vessel MV Swift Rescue, missile corvette RSS Vigour, and a Fokker 50 maritime patrol aircraft.

Two uniformed people in life vests look out aircraft windows; woman uses binoculars.

ME2 Sanhti scanning the seas for possible objects of interest. RSAF aircrew staring hard through the windows of the C-130 during the MH370 search operation.

Military personnel inside a cargo plane, one holding a marker canister. Red bags are on the floor.

1SG Eng Guan Peng preparing a marine marker to be dropped into the sea.

Group of air force personnel in front of Republic of Singapore Air Force aircraft.

CPT Reuel Yeow and his Search and Locate mission team on 9 March 2014.

Singaporean naval officers in uniform review a map and screen.

LTC Sivaraman and Other Operations Than War Branch officers during mission planning.

Four Singaporean airmen in olive flight suits review charts and documents on a table in an office.

RSAF personnel from 122 Squadron going through their flight plans before the deployment of the C-130 aircraft.