Renewed Search for Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 Scheduled for December 30
The deep-sea search for the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 is set to recommence on December 30, 2025, over a decade after the Boeing 777 mysteriously disappeared. The announcement came from Malaysia’s transport ministry, stating that the marine robotics company, Ocean Infinity, will undertake a 55-day underwater search operation in a specified 15,000-square-kilometer area of the southern Indian Ocean.
Flight MH370 went missing on March 8, 2014, while en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 passengers on board, most of whom were Chinese nationals. Despite being the most expensive search operation in aviation history, the main wreckage of the aircraft remains undiscovered. However, some debris has washed ashore on African coastlines and Indian Ocean islands.
The search operation is being conducted under a “no-find, no-fee” contract. This means that Ocean Infinity will receive up to $70 million only if they discover substantial wreckage or flight data recorders. The company, which conducted an unsuccessful search in 2018, asserts that it has enhanced its technology and pinpointed the most probable location of the wreckage based on satellite data and drift analysis. This renewed effort brings a glimmer of hope to the families of the passengers and crew who have been advocating for the continuation of the search for years.
Source: NBC News