Flight MH370, carrying 239 people, departed from Kuala Lumpur on March 7.
Five hours after contact was lost, the aircraft was reported missing. As
widening search efforts proved futile, the hopes of the families of the
crew and passengers began to fade, and 'Malaysia airlines' became the
year�s ninth-highest global spike.
Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Malaysia, has a population of 1.6 million people.
When the MH370 incident happened, searches for the city doubled.
Founded in 1946, Malaysia Airlines flies to 60 destinations worldwide. Searches
for the airline spiked over 50x once news of the missing plane broke.
After the search zone was extended beyond the South China Sea, searches for
'Indian ocean' spiked by over 7x, and 'gulf of Thailand' by over 11x.
The term 'conspiracy theories' doubled soon after MH370 disappeared. Diego
Garcia, an atoll in the Indian Ocean, spiked 16x after suggestions that the
plane had landed at the island's US Navy base.
'Mh370' peaked again in July after a missile downed another Malaysia
Airlines plane, Flight MH17, in Ukraine.
