Malaysia approves a new search for MH370 more than a decade after the plane disappeared

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia – MalaysiaThe government has given final approval for a Texas-Upport of marine robotics based to renew the Search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370who would have crashed into the Southern Indian Ocean over ten years ago.

The ministers agreed with terms and conditions of an “endless and free” contract with Ocean Infinity, based in Texas, to resume the operation of seabed in a new site of 5,800 square miles in the ocean, said Minister of Transport Anthony Loke in a statement on Wednesday. Ocean Infinity will only be paid $ 70 million if the wreckage is discovered.

The Boeing 777 plane disappeared from the radar shortly after taking off on March 8, 2014, carrying 239 people, mainly Chinese nationals, on a flight from the capital of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, in Beijing. The satellite data showed that the plane was diverted from its flight trajectory and headed south to the distant Indian Ocean, where it would have crushed.

An expensive multinational research has failed to present clues to its location, although the debris has been washed on the ground on the East African coast and the Indian Ocean Islands. Private research in 2018 by Ocean Infinity has also found nothing.

The final approval for a new research occurred three months after Malaysia gave the head of the head to the plans for a new research.

The CEO of Ocean Infinity, Oliver Punkett, would have said earlier this year that the company had improved its technology since 2018. He said that the company has been working with many experts to analyze data and had reduced the research area on the most likely site.

Loke said that his ministry will soon have a contract with Ocean Infinity but had not provided details on the conditions. The firm would have sent a research ship to the site and indicated that January-April is the best period for research.

“The government is committed to continuing the research operation and proposing the closure of the families of the passenger passengers in the MH370 flight,” he said in a statement.