US company claims to have scientific evidence in search for missing flight MH370

A US-based company has stated that it had scientific proof of the last resting location of the missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370.

According to report in ‘The Independent’, the Malaysian government has received a proposal from Texas-based marine robotics company Ocean Infinity for a fresh search in the southern Indian Ocean, the plane’s suspected crash site.

The company’s chief executive officer Oliver Plunkett said, ‘‘We now feel in a position to be able to return to the search for MH370, and have submitted a proposal to the Malaysian government. Finding MH370 and bringing some resolution for all connected with the loss of the aircraft has been a constant in our minds since we left the southern Indian Ocean in 2018.’’

‘‘Since then, we have focused on driving the transformation of operations at sea; innovating with technology and robotics to further advance our ocean search capabilities,’’ Plunkett added.

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The company has put forth a novel no-find, no-fee search, which is noteworthy. The last time Ocean Infinity tried to locate the lost aircraft was in 2018.

The minister of transportation for Malaysia, according to ABC7, has requested Ocean Infinity to present its fresh evidence and has pledged to support the approval of a fresh search if it is deemed credible.

Without fresh information on the plane’s whereabouts, the government has long stated that it would not support conducting another search.

On March 8, 2014, Malaysian Airlines flight MH370, with 227 passengers and 12 crew members on board, vanished after taking off from from Kuala Lumpur Airport in southern Malaysia while traveling to Beijing, China. There was very little evidence of the aircraft remaining after a nearly three-year search that covered 120,000 square kilometers in the Indian Ocean. A few bits of debris were discovered. The mission was halted in January 2017 because the jet has never been located, despite the biggest search in aviation history.

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Families of those on board the aircraft talked of their struggle to find closure and their ongoing pain on Sunday, advocating for a fresh search. At a “remembrance day” held at a retail center close to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, some 500 relatives and their supporters attended; many of them were obviously distraught.

Anwar Ibrahim, the prime minister of Malaysia, stated that if “compelling” information surfaced, he would be “happy to reopen” the hunt for flight MH370.