Searches for missing Flight MH370 will resume in Malaysia

Malaysia’s transport minister announced that the country has agreed in principle to restart the hunt for the wreckage of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, which vanished over a decade ago in one of the biggest aviation mysteries in history.

Flight MH370, a Boeing 777 with 12 crew members and 227 passengers, disappeared on March 8th, 2014, while travelling from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.

The idea to search a new location in the southern Indian Ocean was made by Ocean Infinity, an exploration business that also carried out the last search for the jet, which concluded in 2018, according to Transport Minister Anthony Loke.

“If wreckage is substantial, the firm will receive $70 million,” Loke said during a press conference.

“We have a duty, obligation, and commitment to our kin,” he stated.

This time, we hope things will go well, the wreckage will be located, and the families will get closure.

The notion that the plane had been purposefully diverted was initially not ruled out by Malaysian authorities.

Others have been attributed to Indian Ocean islands and the African coast, while others are aircraft debris.

Over 150 Chinese passengers were on the flight, and their families are suing Malaysia Airlines, Boeing, Rolls-Royce, the manufacturer of the aircraft engines, and the insurance company Allianz, among others, for compensation.

In 2018, Malaysia hired Ocean Infinity to conduct a search in the southern Indian Ocean with the promise of paying up to $70 million if the jet was located. However, the search was unsuccessful on two occasions.

This came after China, Malaysia, and Australia conducted an underwater search in a 120,000-square-kilometer region of the southern Indian Ocean using data from automatic connections between the aircraft and an Inmarsat satellite.