Flight MH370, a Boeing 777 carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew, disappeared en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8, 2014.
The Malaysian government has agreed in principle to restart the search for the missing shipwreck Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370more than 10 years after his disappearance in one of the world's biggest aviation mysteries, the country's transport minister announced.
Anthony Loke said on Friday that the proposal to explore a new area in the southern Indian Ocean came from the US-based exploration company Ocean Infinity, which had also conducted the most recent search for the plane that ended. in 2018.
“The proposal for an exploration operation with Ocean Infinity is very strong and deserves consideration,” Loke told reporters. “Our duty and obligation and commitment is to our stakeholders. We hope the this time hopeful, that the wreckage will be found and that the families will find closure.”
Flight MH370, a Boeing 777 carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew, out of sight en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8, 2014.
Loke said that Ocean Infinity would get $70m if the wreck found was substantial.
Malaysian investigators initially did not rule out the possibility that the plane had been taken off course on purpose.
Investigators previously found that less than an hour into the overnight flight, their communications systems were disabled. Military radar then revealed that the aircraft had turned back Malaysiacrossing the island of Penang, and going to the north of Sumatra.
Some 26 countries joined the search and rescue mission after the outbreak, but they found nothing.
Weeks later, the Malaysian government announced MH370 had flown until it ran out of fuelending its journey thousands of kilometers from Beijing in the depths of the southern Indian Ocean.
Debris, some confirmed and believed to have come from the plane, has washed up on the coast of Africa and on islands in the Indian Ocean.
Relatives had sought compensation from Malaysia Airlines, Boeing, aircraft engine maker Rolls-Royce and insurance group Allianz, among others.
Malaysia engaged Ocean Infinity in 2018 to search the southern Indian Ocean, offering to pay up to $70m if it found the plane, but it failed on two attempts .
That followed an underwater search by Malaysia, Australia and China, which had 150 nationals on board, in an area of 120,000 square km (46,332sq miles) in the southern Indian Ocean, based on data on automatic communications between the Inmarsat satellite and the plane. .
