Pretrial meeting held over missing MH370

A pretrial conference in the high-profile litigation related to Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which disappeared on its way to Beijing in 2014, was focused mainly on exchanges of evidence and clarifying appeals and opinions of the parties and ended on Tuesday, a lawyer involved in the litigation said.

The two-day conference was held at Beijing Railway Transport Court, which said 37 cases related to the missing flight are now ready to be heard.

Flight MH370 disappeared from radar on its way from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8, 2014. The aircraft was carrying 239 people, including 154 Chinese passengers.