Malaysia to resume search for missing flight MH370 after decades since it vanished mysteriously

The mystery surrounding Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 is set to take centre stage once more as Malaysia’s transport ministry confirmed on Wednesday that the search will restart on December 30, more than a decade after the aircraft disappeared.

Flight MH370, a Boeing 777 carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew, vanished on March 8,  2014 while travelling from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. The disappearance triggered the largest search operation in aviation history, yet the fate of the aircraft remains unresolved.

Satellite tracking indicated that the aircraft veered off its intended route and travelled south into the remote reaches of the Indian Ocean, where it is thought to have gone down.

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Ocean Infinity to lead renewed 55-day operation

Ocean Infinity—a company operating out of both the United Kingdom and the United States—conducted a fruitless search in 2018 and has since committed to renewing the effort this year.

The ministry said the most recent seabed mission in the southern Indian Ocean, conducted in April this year, was halted due to poor weather. Ocean Infinity has now confirmed it will recommence search operations for 55 days, to be carried out intermittently.

Before that, Australian authorities led a three-year mission that scanned 120,000 square kilometres of the Indian Ocean, turning up almost nothing apart from a handful of debris fragments.
In March, Malaysia approved a “no find, no fee” deal allowing Ocean Infinity to restart the deep-sea search in a newly identified 15,000-square-kilometre zone. Under the agreement, the firm will receive $70 million (AUD $106 million) only if it locates the missing wreckage.