Pix for representational purpose only. FOUR days ago (March 8) marked the seventh anniversary of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370’s disappearance in 2014. However, that was not the first major air crash involving the national carrier since it commenced operations in 1972, then known as Malaysian Airline System (MAS). After MH370, just four months later in July 2014, the world was rocked again by news of another Malaysia Airlines flight falling from the skies. Flight MH17 was shot down by a missile over eastern Ukraine. It was the airlines’ second air crash that resulted from foul play, or by criminal elements. MAS suffered its first air disaster on Dec 4, 1977 when its Boeing 737-200 airliner was hijacked during a domestic flight.