KUALA LUMPUR: A two-day special meeting on the missing Malaysia Airlines MH370 airline will be held on Monday with officials of three countries discussing the next course of action after search operations over a year.

Deputy transport minister Aziz Kaprawi said the meeting would also look in detail at other crucial issues, including the recent discovery of several debris, and input from aviation experts.

High-level officials from Australia, China and Malaysia are expected for the meeting, at the transport ministry in Putrajaya.

Only high ranking officials will attend the meeting, with Malaysia represented by the director-general of civil aviation, Azharuddin Abdul Rahman.

“Top on the agenda is the future direction of the search operation for MH370,” the deputy minister said.

The Australian Transport Safety Bureau, which has led operations to locate the aircraft in the southern Indian Ocean, is expected to complete the search of the designated 120,000 sq km of ocean by month-end.

The Beijing-bound aircraft on flight MH370 with 239 passengers and crew on board disappeared from civilian radar screens on March 8, 2014, about an hour into the scheduled six-hour flight. Its flight path was believed to have ended in the southern Indian Ocean.

– BERNAMA