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December 20, 2024 | 04:16 pm
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Malaysia has agreed to resume the search for the wreckage of missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, its transport minister said on Friday, December 20, 2024, more than 10 years after it disappeared in one of the world's greatest aviation mysteries.
Flight MH370, a Boeing 777 carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew, vanished en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8, 2014.
Citing Reuters, Malaysia’s Transport Minister Anthony Loke said the proposal to resume the search in the southern Indian Ocean came from exploration firm Ocean Infinity, which had conducted the last search for the plane that ended in 2018.
A contract would be signed to cover an 18-month period, and the firm would receive $70 million if wreckage found is substantive.
"Our responsibility, obligation, and commitment is to the next of kin," Loke told a press conference.
"We hope this time will be positive, that the wreckage will be found and give closure to the families."
According to The Star, the ministry is discussing final terms with the U.S.-based company, and it is expected to finalize by early 2025.
Malaysian investigators initially did not rule out the possibility that the aircraft had been deliberately taken off course.
Debris, some confirmed and some believed to be from the aircraft, has washed up along the coast of Africa and on islands in the Indian Ocean.
More than 150 Chinese passengers were on the flight. Others included 50 Malaysians as well as citizens of France, Australia, Indonesia, India, the United States, Ukraine, and Canada, among others.
Relatives have demanded compensation from Malaysia Airlines, Boeing, aircraft engine maker Rolls-Royce, and the Allianz insurance group, among others.
Malaysia engaged Ocean Infinity in 2018 to search in the southern Indian Ocean, but it failed on two attempts.
That followed an underwater search by Malaysia, Australia, and China in a 120,000 sq km (46,332 sq mile) area of the southern Indian Ocean, based on data of automatic connections between an Inmarsat satellite and the plane.
REUTERS | THE STAR
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