Malaysia to resume search for missing flight MH370, more than a decade after plane vanished
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA – SEPTEMBER 05: A Malaysia Airlines aircraft at Sydney Airport in Sydney, Australia on September 05, 2024.
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The search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 will restart later this month, more than a decade after the jet disappeared in one of the world’s greatest aviation mysteries.
The Malaysian Ministry of Transport announced that deep-sea search efforts to find the missing wreckage of the plane will restart on December 30, and the US-based marine robotics company Ocean Infinity will carry out this operation intermittently for 55 days. he said in a statement Wednesday.
The ministry said, without specifying the location of the search area, “The search will be carried out in the target area where it is assessed that the probability of locating the aircraft is highest.”
Flight MH370 (previous value) Carrying 12 crew and 227 passengers Multiple searches were unsuccessful when he disappeared from air traffic radar on March 8, 2014, en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.
In March, the Malaysian government approved a new search for the wreckage of the missing plane, commissioning Ocean Infinity. “no presence, no fee” contractWhere will the company be located? will receive 70 million dollars but only if debris is discovered. But don’t call It was stopped in April due to bad weather conditions.
Malaysia also contracted Ocean Infinity to search the southern Indian Ocean in 2018 but did not find any significant debris.
TOPSHOT – A woman writes a message during an event organized by the passengers’ relatives and supporters to mark the 10th anniversary of the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, carrying 239 people, from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8, 2014, and disappearing from radar screens in Subang Jaya on March 3, 2024.
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In January 2017, Malaysia, China and Australia ended a fruitless two-year underwater search. One 440-page investigation report That year, Australian officials said they had identified “a specific area in the Indian Ocean” that was more likely to be where the plane ended the flight.
The report stated that some debris believed to be from the plane washed ashore off the east African coast and on Indian Ocean islands in 2015 and 2016.
Malaysia’s former prime minister, Najib Razak, said in 2014 that the jetliner’s communication and tracking system was deliberately disabled and it went off course for more than six hours after disappearing from radar.
There were more than 150 Chinese passengers, 50 Malaysians and citizens of France, Australia, Indonesia, India, the USA, Ukraine and Canada on the plane.
