New search for MH370 in the Indian Ocean 11 years after the Malaysia Airlines Lets missed

Kuala Lumpur – a fresh search for Flight Malaysia Airlines MH370 It was launched more than a decade after the plane disappeared into one of the largest permanent mystery of Aviation. The Ocean Infinity Maritime Research Company continued hunting for the missing plane, Malaysian Transport Minister Anthony Loke said on Tuesday.

Loke said that the details of the contract between Malaysia and the company were still completed, but they welcomed “Ocean Infinity Proactivity to implement their ships” to start a search for a plane that disappeared in March 2014.

Loke added details of how long the search has not yet negotiated. He also did not give details about when exactly the British company started hunting.

The Malaysian government in December said she had Agreed to launch a new search For MH370, which disappeared more than a decade ago.

Boeing 777 wearing 239 people disappeared from the radar screens on March 8, 2014, while on the way from Kual Lumpur to Beijing. Despite the biggest search in the history of aviation, the plane has never been found.

“We are very relieved and pleased that the search continues once again after such a long break,” Malaysian Grace Nathan, 36, told AFP, who lost her mother on a convicted jet.

In December, Loke said that the new search would be on the same principle “not a finding, no charge”, as well as the previous search for Ocean Infinity, with the Government paying off only if it finds an aircraft.

The contract was 18 months and Malaysia would pay $ 70 million For the company if the plane was found, Loke said earlier.

Ocean Infinity based in Britain and the United States has performed Failed Hunting in 2018.

The first efforts of the company followed in the mass Search under the leadership of Australia for an aircraft that lasted three years before it was suspended in January 2017. That search went 46,300 square kilometers in the Indian Ocean, but did not find barely a trace of the plane, just Some pieces of debris picked up.

In December, Loke said that a new area of ​​5,800 square kilometers of the Southern Indian Ocean, “chose” on the basis of the latest information and analysis of the data conducted by experts and researchers, “would be reviewed by Ocean Infinity.

“Ocean Infinity search proposal is firm and deserves to be considered,” he told reporters.

“They combined all the data and felt sure that the current search area was more credible,” Loke said on Tuesday. “They (Ocean Infinity) convinced us that they were ready.”

The disappearance of the plane has long been the subject of theory – ranging from credible to extraordinary – including that veteran pilot Zaharie Ahmad Shah, he went to Okuga.

The final tragedy report published in 2018 indicated the failures of the air traffic control and said that the aircraft flow had been handmade.