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04.03.2024 - 23:55 / euronews.com / Ruth Wright
Malaysia may renew the search for MH370, a decade after the flight disappeared
Malaysian officials said on Sunday that a US company that tried to find the plane in 2018 has proposed a fresh search in the southern Indian Ocean. This is where the Malaysia Airlines plane is believed to have crashed a decade ago.
At a rememberance event held by members of the missing passengers, Malaysia's Transport Minister Anthony Loke said he would speak to Texas-based marine robotics firm Ocean Infinity about its latest "no find, no fee" proposal.
The government has long said it would not support another search without new leads on the plane's location.
If the evidence is credible, he said, he will seek Cabinet's approval to sign a new contract to resume the search.
"The government is steadfast in our resolve to locate MH370," Loke told a memorial event marking the 10th anniversary of the disappearance of the jet. "We really hope the search can find the plane and provide truth to the next-of-kin."
Loke's response sparked tears of joy from some family members at the memorial, held in a mall in a Kuala Lumpur suburb.
"I'm on top of the world," said Jacquita Gomes, whose husband was a flight attendant on the plane. She said she is thankful that she may now have a chance for full closure and to say a final goodbye.
"We have been on a roller coaster for the last 10 years. ... If it is not found, I hope that it will continue with another search," she said.
The Boeing 777 plane vanished from radar shortly after taking off on 8 March 2014. It was carrying 239 people, mostly Chinese nationals, on a flight from Malaysia's capital Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.
Satellite data showed the plane deviated from its flight path to head over the southern Indian Ocean, where it is believed to have crashed.
The tragedy sparked moves to bolster aviation safety.
Soon after the disapperance, an expensive multinational search failed to turn up any clues, although debris washed ashore on the east African coast and Indian Ocean islands.
A private search in 2018 by Ocean Infinity also found nothing. V.P.R. Nathan, a member of the Voice MH370 next-of-kin group, said Ocean Infinity initially planned a search last year but it was delayed by the delivery of a new fleet. It is now on track to resume the hunt, he said.
Ocean Infinity CEO Oliver Punkett told the New Straits Times that the company had improved its technology since 2018.
"We now feel in a position to be able to return to the search for MH370," he told the English-language daily. "We've been working with many experts, some outside of Ocean Infinity, to continue analyzing the data in the hopes of narrowing the search area down to one in which success becomes potentially achievable."
Loke declined to reveal
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