Goodbye Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200ER ! Thank You For Fond Memories in the Past !

9M-MRM took off from Paris-Charles De Gaulle International Airport during the last flight of Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200ER

26 January 2016, 07:52 A.M, Malaysia Time. 9M-MRM, a Boeing 777-200ER aircraft of Malaysia Airlines touched down at Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia from Paris-Charles de Gaulle International Airport in Paris, France as flight MH21. This also the last time for the crews and passengers to fly on Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200ER. At the date, it also the last time for Malaysia Airlines to operate Paris route. Financial problems forced Malaysia Airlines to cut some long-haul and unprofitable routes. 

9M-MRM

In the history of Malaysia Airlines, it operated up to 19 Boeing 777-200ER aircraft. Malaysia Airlines also has many memories with this aircraft. 

9M-MRA

On 12 April 1997, 9M-MRA, the airline also became the record-holder of the world's longest non-commercial non-stop flight, from Boeing Field in Seattle to Kuala Lumpur, flying eastward, passing over the European and African continents, breaking the Great Circle Distance Without Landing record for an airliner with its Boeing 777-200ER dubbed Super Ranger; a record now held by the Boeing 777-200LR. That happened when Boeing delivered the first Boeing 777 of Malaysia Airlines. Malaysia Airlines operated this aircraft to many long-haul routes until to Europe and the United States at the airline's glory times, and before the airline cut many unprofitable long-haul routes. It became the backbone of Malaysia Airlines's long-haul routes. The Boeing 777-200ER also replaced the aging Boeing 747s aircraft.

9M-MRD in Heliconia Livery

One of Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200ER aircraft wore the special 'Heliconia' livery, from 2005 until 2008, before changed to the normal livery. The aircraft was 9M-MRD.

9M-MRO

On 8 March 2014, 9M-MRO, operated flight 370 from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, disappeared from radar over Southern China Sea with 239 people on board, before it detected to make a sharp turn to Southern Indian Ocean and believed crash somewhere in the Southern Indian Ocean. The reason is still unknown until now. After two years of search, only a flaperon found on La Reunion Island in August 2015. 

9M-MRD

On 17 July 2014, 9M-MRD, operated flight 17 from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur was shot by a missile over Ukraine. 298 people on board were killed. This accident happened 17 years after the delivery of 9M-MRD to Malaysia Airlines, AT THE SAME DAY!!!

Now, Malaysia Airlines will no longer operate long-haul routes again, until the brand new Airbus A350-900 XWB aircraft delivered to Malaysia Airlines in 2017. Maybe, the long-haul routes of Malaysia Airlines will rise again. But, now, only some words to say; GOODBYE MALAYSIA AIRLINES BOEING 777-200ER! THANK YOU FOR FOND MEMORIES IN THE PAST!