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Flight MH370, a Boeing 777 carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew, disappeared en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8, 2014.
The Malaysian government has agreed in principle to resume the search for the remains of the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370more than 10 years after its disappearance in one of the world’s greatest aviation mysteries, the country’s transport minister announced.
Anthony Loke said on Friday that the proposal to search a new area in the southern Indian Ocean came from the US exploration company Ocean Infinity, which had also carried out the most recent search for the plane that ended up in 2018.
“The proposal for an Ocean Infinity search operation is sound and deserves consideration,” Loke told reporters. “Our responsibility, obligation and commitment are with the family members. We hope that this time will be positive, that the remains will be found and that the families will find closure.”
Flight MH370, a Boeing 777 with 227 passengers and 12 crew, it disappeared en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8, 2014.
Loke said Ocean Infinity would receive $70 million if the wreckage found is substantial.
Malaysian investigators initially did not rule out the possibility that the plane had been diverted deliberately.
Investigators previously found that less than an hour into the night flight, their communications systems were disabled. Military radar then revealed that the plane had turned back malaysiaskirted the island of Penang and headed for the northern tip of Sumatra.
Some 26 countries joined the search and rescue mission after the disappearance, but found nothing.
Weeks later, the Malaysian government announced MH370 had flown until it ran out of fuelending its journey thousands of kilometers from Beijing in the depths of the southern Indian Ocean.
Debris, some confirmed and believed to be from the plane, has washed up along the coast of Africa and on islands in the Indian Ocean.
Relatives had demanded compensation from Malaysia Airlines, Boeing, jet engine maker Rolls-Royce and insurance group Allianz, among others.
Malaysia hired Ocean Infinity in 2018 to search the southern Indian Ocean, offering to pay up to $70 million if it found the plane, but failed in two attempts.
This followed an underwater search by Malaysia, Australia and China, which had 150 nationals on board, of a 120,000 km² (46,332 sq mi) area of the southern Indian Ocean, based on data on automatic connections between a Inmarsat satellite and the plane. .
