The search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 may resume, the country’s government announced on Sunday, after a U.S. technology company proposed to reexamine the area in the southern Indian Ocean where the aircraft is thought to have crashed ten years ago.
The Texas-based Ocean Infinity has suggested another “no find, no fee” premise to search the seabeds, extending its search beyond the site it initially explored in 2018, according to Transport Minister Anthony Loke. In an attempt to determine the plane’s ultimate resting location, he said he has sent an invitation to the firm to meet with him and discuss the new scientific data.
Loke refused to divulge Ocean Infinity’s suggested sum in the event that the jet is located. Financial expense is not a concern, he added, and if all goes according to plan, he sees no obstacles in the way of the search’s advancement.
“The government is steadfast in our resolve to locate MH370,” Loke said during a commemorative gathering marking the 10th anniversary of the jet’s disappearance. “We really hope the search can find the plane and provide truth to the next-of-kin.”
On March 8, 2014, a Boeing 777 aircraft carrying 239 passengers — mostly Chinese nationals — from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing disappeared from radar shortly after takeoff. The aircraft was thought to have crashed in the southern Indian Ocean after straying from its intended flight path, according to satellite data.
Numerous bits of wreckage had come up on the coast of east Africa and on islands in the Indian Ocean, but an expensive, international government search failed to produce any results. Nothing was discovered during Ocean Infinity’s 2018 private search either.
