Malaysia Relaunches Deep-Sea Search for MH370 Over a Decade After Disappearance
Malaysia has restarted the deep-sea search for Flight MH370, missing since 2014 with 239 people. Ocean Infinity will conduct a 55-day 'no-find, no-fee' operation.
Overview
Malaysia has restarted the deep-sea search for Flight MH370, a Boeing 777 that vanished in 2014 with 239 people, over a decade ago.
Texas-based Ocean Infinity will conduct the new deep-sea search under a 'no-find, no-fee' contract, receiving $70 million from Malaysia only if MH370 wreckage is discovered.
The intermittent deep-sea search operation is scheduled to commence on December 30, continuing for a total of 55 days in targeted areas of the southern Indian Ocean.
Previous extensive multinational searches, covering 120,000 square kilometers, failed to find the plane, yielding only small fragments washed ashore on East African and Indian Ocean islands.
Investigators in 2018 concluded the plane was manually turned around in mid-air, with radar and satellite data confirming its deviation towards the southern Indian Ocean.
Analysis
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FAQ
The Malaysian government resumed the search to provide closure to the families affected by the tragedy and authorized a 'no-find, no-fee' contract with Ocean Infinity to conduct a new 55-day deep-sea search in targeted areas of the southern Indian Ocean starting December 30, 2025.
The new search will cover a targeted 15,000-square-kilometer area of the southern Indian Ocean where the plane is believed to have crashed, utilizing Ocean Infinity’s marine robotics technology in an intermittent 55-day operation starting December 30, 2025.
Investigators concluded in 2018 that MH370 was manually turned away from its flight path in mid-air before heading toward the southern Indian Ocean, supported by radar and satellite data indicating its deviation from the original route.
Earlier multinational search operations covered about 120,000 square kilometers but failed to locate the main wreckage; only small debris pieces washed ashore near East African and Indian Ocean islands were recovered.
Ocean Infinity will be paid $70 million by the Malaysian government only if the search successfully discovers the wreckage of MH370, operating under a 'no-find, no-fee' contract.
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