{"id":199189,"date":"2024-12-20T14:17:35","date_gmt":"2024-12-20T14:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/20\/search-for-malaysia-airlines-flight-mh370-to-resume-a-decade-after-it-vanished\/"},"modified":"2024-12-20T14:17:35","modified_gmt":"2024-12-20T14:17:35","slug":"search-for-malaysia-airlines-flight-mh370-to-resume-a-decade-after-it-vanished","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/20\/search-for-malaysia-airlines-flight-mh370-to-resume-a-decade-after-it-vanished\/","title":{"rendered":"Search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 to resume a decade after it vanished"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A marine robotics firm is resuming the search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 which went missing more than 10 years ago.<\/p>\n

Ocean Infinity, which operates underwater robotic vehicles and has a base in Southampton, took part in previous searches<\/a><\/strong> which ended in 2018.<\/p>\n

Malaysia’s transport minister Anthony Loke said the company has agreed in principle to searches in a new area in the southern Indian Ocean.<\/p>\n

If it is successful in finding a substantive amount of wreckage it will receive $70m (\u00a356m), Mr Loke told a news conference.<\/p>\n

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MH370<\/a><\/strong> vanished en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on 8 March 2014. The Boeing 777 aircraft was carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew.<\/p>\n

“Our responsibility and obligation and commitment is to the next of kin,” Mr Loke said.<\/p>\n

“We hope this time will be positive, that the wreckage will be found and give closure to the families.”<\/p>\n

The aircraft’s disappearance has become one of the world’s greatest aviation mysteries. Some families have claimed there was an intentional cover-up<\/a><\/strong>, that the plane was crashed deliberately<\/a><\/strong>, potentially as part of a murder-suicide<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

But there has been no conclusive proof and Malaysian officials have been unable to determine<\/a><\/strong> the real cause.<\/p>\n

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An underwater search by Malaysia, Australia and China covered an area of 120,000 sq km (46,332 sq mile) of the southern Indian Ocean.<\/p>\n

Some debris from the aircraft has washed up along the coast of Africa and on islands in the Indian Ocean.<\/p>\n

Malaysian investigators initially did not rule out the possibility the aircraft had been deliberately taken off course.<\/p>\n

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What happened to flight MH370?<\/h4>\n<\/p>\n

The Boeing 777 plane vanished from radar shortly after taking off from Malaysia’s capital, Kuala Lumpur, on 8 March 2014.<\/p>\n

The flight to Beijing had 227 passengers on board, mostly Chinese nationals, and 12 crew.<\/p>\n

Satellite data showed the plane deviated from its flight path to head over the southern Indian Ocean, where it is believed to have crashed.<\/p>\n

An expensive multinational search covering a 120,000 sq km (46,332 sq mile) area failed to turn up any clues.<\/p>\n

A 495-page report into the disappearance in 2018 said the plane’s controls were likely deliberately manipulated to go off course.<\/p>\n

Investigators stopped short of offering a conclusion on what happened, saying that depended on finding the wreckage.<\/p>\n

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More than 150 Chinese passengers were on the flight and some families of those missing have consistently demanded the search resumes and compensation from Malaysia Airlines, among others.<\/p>\n

Mr Loke said the arrangement with Ocean Infinity is a “no find, no fee” deal and his ministry hopes to finalise negotiations for the terms in early 2025.<\/p>\n

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Coroner ruling over Michael Mosley’s death<\/a>
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Ocean Infinity’s CEO Oliver Plunkett said the agreement in principle to resume searches was “great news”.<\/p>\n

In a statement to Sky News, he said he planned to share more details in the new year “once we’ve finalised the details and the team gets ready to go”.<\/p>\n

In 2022, Ocean Infinity was involved in the discovery of Sir Ernest Shackleton’s lost vessel, The Endurance<\/a><\/strong>, which sank in the Weddell Sea in 1915.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n


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