Missing flight MH370: Malaysia civil aviation chief stands down after report finds 'lapses' with Kuala Lumpur air traffic control

The head of Malaysia's civil aviation authority has stepped down after an investigation into missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 "showed lapses by the air traffic control centre in Kuala Lumpur," Reuters reports.

"It is with regret and after much thought and contemplation that I have decided to resign as the Chairman of Civil Aviation Authority of Malaysia effective 14 days from the date of the resignation notice which I have served today," Azharuddin Abdul Rahman said in a statement.

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The plane carrying 239 people from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing vanished March 8, 2014, and is presumed to have crashed in the far southern Indian Ocean.

Family members of those onboard the plane said they were frustrated as there were many gaps in the investigations and questions left unanswered.

Scattered pieces of debris that washed ashore on African beaches and Indian Ocean islands indicated a distant remote stretch of the ocean where the plane likely crashed.

But a government search by Australia, Malaysia and China failed to pinpoint a location. And a second, private search by US company Ocean Infinity that finished earlier this year also found no sign of the wreckage.