The government has made an agreement with the company Ocean Infinity to explore a new area of the Indian Ocean, hoping to find the wreck and provide answers to the victims' families.
KUALA LAMPUR – Malaysia has agreed to resume the search for the wreckage of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, which disappeared on March 8, 2014, with 227 passengers and 12 crew members on board.
This was announced by the Minister of Transport, Anthony Loke, according to whom the proposal put forward by the US exploration company Ocean Infinity to start a new research operation in a new area of the southern Indian Ocean “is solid and deserves to be taken into consideration.”
The minister declared at a press conference that the company, which also conducted the last search for the plane which ended in 2018, will receive 70 million dollars if the remains found are substantial.
“Our responsibility, our obligation and our commitment are aimed at the closest relatives. We hope to be successful this time,” he said, saying he was “confident about the proposed area”.
The agreement between the Government of Malaysia and Ocean Infinity will be officially concluded in early 2025 and will last 18 months.
The Boeing 777 disappeared during a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing in 2014. Despite searches – the most extensive in the history of aviation – the plane was never found and even today, after ten years, the causes of its disappearance are unknown disappeared and not even the precise point where it fell.
There are many theories, and Malaysian investigators had not initially ruled out the possibility that he had been deliberately blown off course by pilot Zaharie Ahmad Shah, a seasoned professional who was 53 at the time.
More than 150 Chinese passengers were on the flight, whose relatives have sought compensation from Malaysia Airlines, Boeing, engine maker Rolls-Royce and insurance group Allianz, among others.
Debris, some confirmed and some only supposedly from the plane, has washed up along the coasts of Africa and on islands in the Indian Ocean over the years.
In 2018, Malaysia contracted Ocean Infinity to search the southern Indian Ocean, offering to pay up to $70 million if it found the plane. Unfortunately, however, the group has already failed on two occasions.
This was followed by an underwater search by the governments of Malaysia, Australia and China, in an area of 120 thousand square kilometers of the southern Indian Ocean, based on data from automatic connections between an Inmarsat satellite and the aircraft in the moments before to his disappearance.
