The Malaysian government announced on Sunday that it is pushing ahead with the search for Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, which disappeared while en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing nearly 10 years ago.
Flight MH370 was a Boeing 777 carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew members when it disappeared on March 8, 2014.
The plane’s disappearance has become one of the world’s biggest aviation mysteries since Australia, China and Malaysia ended a fruitless $157 million search effort in January 2017.
Malaysian investigators have not ruled out the possibility that the plane intentionally veered off course, as debris believed to be from the plane has been found washing up on African coasts and islands in the Indian Ocean. .
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A young child watches a Malaysia Airlines plane on the tarmac, hoping for the return of missing flight MH370 at Kuala Lumpur International Airport on the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on Tuesday, March 11, 2014. (Joshua Paul/NurPhoto/NurPhoto/Corbis via Getty Images)
On Sunday, Malaysian Transport Minister Anthony Loke invited US-based undersea explorer Ocean Infinity to discuss its latest search proposal after two previous efforts failed. said that it was done.
“The Malaysian government is fully committed to the search (for MH370) and the search must continue,” Roque said at a memorial event on Sunday.
The minister also said that once Ocean Infinity’s proposal is approved by the Malaysian government, Malaysia will discuss cooperation with Australia to resume the search.
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CASSA Malaysia president Dr. Jacob George shows the coordinates of where Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 is believed to have crashed during a press conference in Subang Jaya, a suburb of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on January 16, 2019. (Mohd Samsul Mohd Said/Getty Images)
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One of the victims of the ill-fated plane was Ann Daisy, whose husband VPR Nathan said he would welcome the “no discovery, no fee” option offered by Ocean Infinity. Stated.
“We want the search to continue, but we also need to be realistic,” he said. “You can’t expect the government to spend billions of dollars.” [on the search]. ”
The plane’s disappearance sparked a years-long search that uncovered a confusing and complex set of facts, with no firm conclusion yet as to what happened. Three years later, Malaysian authorities called off the search, but subsequent search efforts were short-lived.
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Malaysian Transport Minister Anthony Loke (C) looks at a wing flap discovered on Pemba Island, Tanzania. The wing flap was identified as the missing part of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 during a commemorative event on the 5th due to its unique part number dating back to 9M-MRO. March 3, 2019 marks one year since Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 went missing in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. (Adri Ghazali/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
A Netflix documentary released in March 2020 examined the timeline of the plane’s disappearance and featured prominent voices and people involved in the response and search for the plane.
The documentary also revived some wild theories about what happened to the plane.
After its disappearance, the plane emitted several pings, which were recorded and tracked over the next six hours by London-based satellite company Inmarsat.
The ping allowed the company to confirm that the plane had turned back over Malaysia before making its final ping over the Indian Ocean. After that, the mystery deepened. Inmarsat used data to determine that the plane flew south toward the Indian Ocean, rather than tilting north over the Asian continent.
Blaine Gibson, a self-described hobbyist and adventurer, then discovered some pieces of the plane washed up on islands around the Indian Ocean, which aviation authorities said matched a Boeing 777. And they decided that was enough evidence. Until then, no other planes had been reported missing, and the plane crashed. This is the closest thing to confirmation the family believes they will get.
Just last year, a retired fisherman claimed to have found large pieces of a missing plane off the coast of Australia.
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Former Australian fisherman Kit Olver said in an interview with the Sydney Morning Herald that he discovered the plane’s debris when his trawler pulled up what appeared to be a wing during a deep-sea fishing expedition. Ta.
After nine years of silence, he said he wanted to release information to help the families of the passengers on board MH370.
Fox News Digital’s Sarah Rumpf-Whitten and Reuters contributed to this report.
