Search for flight MH370 resumes, 11 years after it disappeared – National | Globalnews.ca

The search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 will resume on December 30, Malaysia’s transport ministry said on Wednesday, more than a decade after the Beijing flight disappeared in one of the world’s biggest aviation mysteries.

Flight MH370, a Boeing 777, was carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew when it disappeared en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing in 2014. Since then, several searches have been conducted for the aircraft, but all proved fruitless.

The most recent search in the southern Indian Ocean was halted in April after just a few weeks due to poor weather conditions. Exploration company Ocean Infinity has confirmed it will resume seabed operations on and off for 55 days, the Transport Ministry said.

“The search will be conducted in a target area believed to have the greatest probability of locating the aircraft,” the report said.

No exact location of the search area is given.

Malaysian investigators initially did not rule out that the plane had been deliberately taken off course. Debris, some confirmed and some believed to be from the plane, has washed up along the coast of Africa and on islands in the Indian Ocean.

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The resumed search will be in line with the conditions agreed between the government and Ocean Infinity for restarting the search for the wreckage of MH370, the ministry said.

Malaysia will pay the firm $70 million if substantial wreckage is found during the search of the seabed of an area of ​​the southern Indian Ocean covering 15,000 square kilometers.

Ocean Infinity had previously searched for the aircraft through 2018, but could not find any substantial wreckage.

A 495-page report into the disappearance in 2018 said the Boeing 777’s controls were likely deliberately manipulated to go off course, but investigators could not determine who was responsible and did not provide a conclusion about what happened, saying it depended on finding the wreckage.

Investigators have said there was nothing suspicious in the background, financial affairs, training and mental health of either the captain or co-pilot.

There were more than 150 Chinese passengers on board the flight. The others included 50 Malaysians and citizens from France, Australia, Indonesia, India, the United States, Ukraine and Canada, among others.

Relatives have demanded compensation from several companies, including Malaysia Airlines, Boeing, aircraft engine manufacturer Rolls-Royce and the insurance group Allianz.