New search underway for MH370 in Indian Ocean 11 years after Malaysia Airlines flight disappeared
Kuala Lumpur – New Search Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 The plane has been missing for more than a decade in one of the biggest lasting mysteries in aviation. Malaysia’s Transport Minister Anthony Loke said on Tuesday that marine exploration company Ocean Infinity has resumed the missing plane hunting.
Loke told reporters that details of the contract between Malaysia and the company are still being finalized, but welcomes “the active deployment of the ocean infinity” to begin searching for aircraft that disappeared in March 2014.
Loke added that details about the search last time have not been negotiated. He has not provided details on when the British company will start hunting.
The Malaysian government said in December Agree to start a new search For the MH370, it disappeared more than a decade ago.
On March 8, 2014, the Boeing 777 carrying 239 people disappeared from the radar screen, while on the way from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. Despite the largest searches in aviation history, no aircraft have been found.
“We are very relieved and happy that the search has resumed again,” said Grace Nathan, 36, who lost her mother on the doomed jet.
In December, Loke said the new search would be the same “no discovery, no fees” as Ocean Infinity’s previous search, and the government only paid for it when the plane was found.
The contract lasted for 18 months, Malaysia Will pay $70 million Loke said before that if you find a plane, please give it to the company.
The oceans headquartered in the United Kingdom and the United States are underway Failed hunting in 2018.
The company’s first effort was huge Australian-led search For aircraft lasting three years ago Suspension of January 2017. The search covered 46,300 square miles in the Indian Ocean, but found little traces of the plane, only Some fragments were picked up.
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Loke said a new 5,800 square mile area in the southern Indian Ocean “based on the latest information and data analysis conducted by experts and researchers” will be searched by Ocean Infinity.
“The proposal for the Ocean Infinity Search is a solid proposal and worth considering,” he told reporters.
“They combine all the data and they are more credible about the current search area,” Locke said Tuesday. “They (Ocean Infinite) have convinced us that we are ready.”
The plane’s disappearance has long been the subject of theory – from credible to eccentric people – including veteran pilot Zaharie Ahmad Shah rogue.
The final report on the tragedy released in 2018 shows that air traffic control failed and says the process of the aircraft has been manually changed.
