Tripartite

Tripartite Arrangement and Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370

Malaysia, China and Australia - a Tripartite arrangement,
and Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370

Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 was a scheduled international flight which left Kuala Lumpur on Saturday, 8 March 2014 at 00:42 am (MYT) and was expected to arrive in Beijing at 6:30 am (MYT). The 12 crew and 38 passengers were Malaysian and 153 of the 227 passengers were Chinese.

For reasons that are still not known, the aircraft made a turn-back west across the Malay Peninsula; changed direction again and flew north west towards the Andaman Sea; and then turned south. Flight MH370 ended in the southern Indian Ocean. At the request of Malaysia, the Australian Government accepted responsibility for the initial search in the southern Indian Ocean.

The Governments of Malaysia, Australia and the People's Republic of China agreed to collaborate in relation to both the search strategy and funding - this became known as the Tripartite arrangement.

Further detail is provided in articles indexed below:-

Index of articles related to the Tripartite arrangement and Flight MH370

1. Background - an extract from the The Operational Search for MH370, Australian Transport Safety Bureau, 3 October 2017 ATSB-RPT-1306 ‎ relating to the Tripartite arrangement provides authoritative background.


2. Tripartite Communiqués - following each Tripartite meeting a Communiqué was issued. These were hosted on the Joint Agency Coordination Centre (JACC) website and others including the Malaysian Government Official Site for MH370. Communiqués are replicated here, indexed by date.


3. Search Funding


4. Related Articles:-
   
   • Malaysia and Flight MH370
   • China and Flight MH370
   • Australia and Flight MH370

Shared by or involving three parties. Tripartite meetings that make decisions with regard to MH370 involve the governments of Australia, Malaysia and the People’s Republic of China. (Source: ATSB)

Malaysian Time (MYT) is Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) + 8 hours

a form of media release, an official bulletin

Joint Agency Coordination Centre (Australia)