Outside the court in Beijing (Photo: AP).
AP reported that security was tightened around the Chaoyang District Court in Beijing, China this morning, November 27, when the court opened a hearing on compensation for relatives of the victims who went missing on Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 in 2014.
Police carefully checked the identities of reporters and took them to a separate area, and were unable to interview relatives of the victims before the trial began.
Details of the hearing are not yet known, but it appears to be based on an assessment that Malaysia Airlines failed to take the necessary steps to locate the plane after it disappeared from air traffic control screens on the evening of March 8, 2014.
Relatives of the victims expect the hearings to last until mid-December.
The disappearance of MH370 is one of the biggest mysteries in the world aviation industry (Photo: Reuters).
Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, a Boeing 777 carrying 227 passengers (of which more than 150 were Chinese nationals) and 12 crew members, took off from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on the evening of March 8, 2014. The plane lost contact with the ground while flying over the East Sea, about 38 minutes after takeoff.
To this day, this remains one of the most mysterious disappearances in the history of the world aviation industry. Despite the cooperative efforts of many countries, investigators have yet to find an answer to the fate of MH370.
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