The Malaysian government through its transport minister has agreed in principle to resume the search for the wreckage of missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370. This us coming over 10 years after it disappeared in what has bow become one of the world’s greatest aviation mysteries.
On March 8, 2014, Flight MH370, a Boeing 777 carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew, vanished on its way to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur.
Anthony Loke, the Transport Minister said the proposal to search a new area in the southern Indian Ocean had came from an exploration firm Ocean Infinity. This firm had also conducted the last search for the plane that ended in 2018.
As it stands, Ocean Infinity will receive $70 million if the wreckage found is substantive, Loke had said in a press conference.
“Our responsibility and obligation and commitment is to the next of kin. We hope this time will be positive, that the wreckage will be found and give closure to the families.” he added.
Malaysian investigators had initially not ruled out the possibility that the aircraft had been intentionally taken off course.
Since its disappearance, debris, some confirmed and some believed to be from the aircraft, have washed up along the coast of Africa and on islands in the Indian Ocean.
Over 150 Chinese passengers were on that ill-fated, and their relatives have since been demanding compensation from Malaysia Airlines, Boeing, aircraft engine maker Rolls-Royce and the Allianz insurance group among others.
Back in 2018, Malaysia employed the services of Ocean Infinity to search in the southern Indian Ocean, going as far as offering to pay up to $70 million if it found the plane, but it tragically failed on two attempts.
