Hunt for missing flight MH370 to resume this month, Malaysia says
(VOVWORLD) - 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-bound flight disappeared in one of the world's greatest aviation mysteries.
 Badges are displayed during the sixth annual remembrance event for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 in Putrajaya, Malaysia, March 7, 2020. (REUTERS/Lim Huey Teng) |
Flight MH370, a Boeing 777, was carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew when it vanished en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing in 2014.
Multiple search operations for the plane have been conducted since then but all proved fruitless. The most recent search in the southern Indian Ocean was suspended in April after just a few weeks due to poor weather conditions.
Exploration firm Ocean Infinity has confirmed it would recommence seabed operations for 55 days, conducted intermittently, the transport ministry said.
"The search will be carried out in targeted area assessed to have the highest probability of locating the aircraft," it said in a statement.
No precise location of the search area has been given.
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.