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Malaysia Airlines grounds remaining fleet of aircraft involved in MH370 and MH17 disasters

The airline will downsize the twin-jet Boeing 777 to a Boeing 737-800 after 19 years of using the aircraft

Flight MH17 was downed by a Buk surface-to-air missile fired from eastern Ukraine
Almost two years after one of its Boeing 777s went missing, Malaysia Airlines is grounding its remaining fleet of the aircraft - and cancelling the route on which one of the planes was shot down.

The Malaysian carrier's last 777 operation is scheduled to take off from Amsterdam just before noon, local time, today. It ends 19 years of flying the twin-jet - and four decades of the route between the airline's hub, Kuala Lumpur, and the Dutch capital.

At about the same time, another Malaysia Airlines 777 is due to arrive at Kuala Lumpur from Guangzhou in China. While that route will continue, the plane is being downsized to a Boeing 737-800 - a predominantly short-haul jet with about half the capacity.

The move comes as Malaysia Airlines seeks to move on after the two tragedies involving the 777 in 2014. On 8 March, flight MH370 vanished while on a scheduled flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people on board. Analysis of satellite data showed that the plane was probably flown to the southern Indian Ocean.

While theories about its fate proliferated, the only fragment of the missing plane so far discovered is a flaperon - part of a wing - which was washed up on Reunion Island last July.