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Malaysia to renew search for missing MH370 aircraft
Malaysia
is set to relaunch efforts to locate the wreckage of Malaysia Airlines Flight
MH370, more than a decade after its disappearance in one of aviation’s most
enduring mysteries, Transport Minister Anthony Loke announced on Friday.
The
proposal to search a new area in the southern Indian Ocean was submitted by
exploration firm Ocean Infinity, which did the last search in 2018, according
to local news outlet CNA.
“We
hope this time will be positive, that the wreckage will be found and give
closure to the families,” Loke told a press conference, stressing the shared
responsibility to provide answers to the next of kin.
The
firm will receive $70 million if it locates substantive wreckage, he added.
On
March 8, 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 disappeared en route from Kuala
Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people aboard.
Despite
extensive searches covering over 119,140 square kilometers (46,000 square
miles) of ocean, only 18 fragments of the plane have been recovered, washed
ashore in various locations.
Image
Credit: © AA
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