Ocean Infinity resumes search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370
December 30 (UPI) — Deep-sea search experts at Ocean Infinity resumed their search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 on Tuesday, nearly 12 years after the plane disappeared and became an aviation mystery.
Experts believe MH370 crashed into the Indian Ocean when it disappeared from radar on March 8, 2014. US-based marine robot company Ocean Infinity, make a call The entire ocean bed will be closed within the next 55 days after signing a $70 million contract that will pay only if the plane is deployed.
Ocean Infinity plans to use advanced sonar scanning technology, deep-sea drones and underwater vehicles to search a 6,000 square mile area of the Indian Ocean bed. NBC News reported.
The company ended the 22-day search in April due to bad weather conditions and postponed additional work until the end of the traditional storm season in the northern Indian Ocean, which runs from April to December.
“The search operation will focus on the target area where the aircraft is considered to have the highest probability of being detected in accordance with the service agreement signed between the Kingdom of Malaysia and Ocean Infinity on 25 March 2025,” Malaysia’s Ministry of Transport said in a statement in March. he said.
The Boeing 777 was carrying 239 passengers and crew on a routine six-hour flight from the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur to Beijing when it disappeared from radar about an hour after takeoff.
Two-thirds of the passengers were Chinese, as well as significant numbers of Malaysians and US citizens.
aircraft the transmitter has stopped working About 40 minutes into the flight, however, military radar was still tracking him when he unexpectedly turned west, crossed the Malay Peninsula and disappeared somewhere over the Indian Ocean.
Dozens of potential pieces of the plane’s wreckage have been found off the coast of islands in the Indian Ocean and off the coast of east Africa, but no human remains have been found.
All aboard are presumed dead, and the governments of Australia, Malaysia and China undertook the costliest and largest submarine search in history from 2014 to 2017, mapping 46,000 square miles of the bottom of the southern Indian Ocean.
Ocean Infinity also spent three months searching for the plane in 2018 after accepting the contract.
The US firm recently managed to locate an elusive target that sank more than a century ago.
In 2022, Ocean Infinity found Endurance, which was trapped and crushed by ice after carrying British explorer Earnest Shackleton and his team to Antarctica in 1915.
