The search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 which disappeared at sea with 239 people on board will resume tomorrow, more than ten years after the massacre. Numerous attempts to solve one of aviation’s greatest mysteries have so far been in vain, and new research by Ocean Infinity, a British marine robotics company, began months ago but was halted in April due to bad weather.
Malaysia’s Ministry of Transport announced this month that seabed searches would be conducted intermittently for 55 days starting December 30.
Ocean Infinity has entered into a “no find, no reward” contract with Malaysia, under which the company will search a new 15,000 square km site in the ocean and receive a compensation of $70 million only if the wreck is found. Flight MH370 veered off course and disappeared from radar during a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8, 2014. It was carrying 12 Malaysian crew members and 227 passengers, most of them Chinese nationals. There were also 38 Malaysian passengers on board, along with seven Australian citizens and residents, as well as passengers from Indonesia, India, France, the United States, Iran, Ukraine, Canada, New Zealand, the Netherlands, Russia and Taiwan.
The flight’s disappearance sparked one of the largest underwater search operations in the world. Australia led the multinational operation, along with Malaysia and China, which covered more than 46,330 square miles of seabed in a remote area of the southern Indian Ocean. The search ended in January 2017 and in a report published the same year, Australian investigators said it was impossible to provide an answer to the families.
In 2018, Ocean Infinity conducted a three-month search, but this too proved fruitless. So far there are few certainties in the matter: it seems excluded that the pilots intentionally crashed the plane or that a mechanical failure occurred, but it now seems established that the sudden reversal of course was caused by the “illicit intervention of a third party”.
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