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In the poignant image captured on March 10, 2014, students from Hailiang International School in Zhuji, Zhejiang province, China, are seen lighting candles as they pray for the passengers aboard the vanished Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.
The mystery surrounding the disappearance of flight MH370, one of aviation history’s most perplexing enigmas, is set to be revisited with renewed efforts. Later this month, the search will be reignited, marking over a decade since the aircraft vanished without a trace.
Scheduled to commence on December 30, the operation will be spearheaded by the U.S.-based marine robotics company Ocean Infinity. This deep-sea search is expected to run intermittently over a span of 55 days, according to a statement released by Malaysia’s transport ministry on Wednesday.
The ministry outlined that the search would focus on areas deemed to have the highest likelihood of uncovering the aircraft’s remains, although the exact locations have not been disclosed.
Flight MH370, carrying 12 crew members and 227 passengers, disappeared from radar screens on March 8, 2014, during its journey from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. Despite numerous search operations, the plane’s fate remains unknown, leaving behind unanswered questions and a haunting mystery.
Flight MH370 was carrying 12 crew members and 227 passengers en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing when it disappeared from air traffic radar on Mar. 8, 2014, prompting multiple rounds of search efforts that have proved fruitless.
In March, the Malaysian government approved a new search for the missing aircraft’s debris, commissioning Ocean Infinity on a “no-find, no-fee” contract, in which the company will receive $70 million only if wreckage was discovered. However, the search was halted in April due to bad weather conditions.
Malaysia also engaged Ocean Infinity to search the southern Indian Ocean in 2018, but it failed to find any substantive wreckage.
TOPSHOT – A woman writes a message during an event held by relatives of the passengers and supporters to mark the 10th year since the Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 carrying 239 people disappeared from radar screens on March 8, 2014 while en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, in Subang Jaya on March 3, 2024.
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In January 2017, Malaysia, China and Australia ended a futile two-year underwater search. In a 440-page investigation report that year, Australian officials said they had identified “a specific area of the Indian Ocean” that was more likely to be where the aircraft ended the flight.
The report added that some debris, believed to be from the aircraft, washed ashore on the east African coast and Indian Ocean islands in 2015 and 2016.
Malaysia’s former prime minister Najib Razak said in 2014 that the jetliner had its communication and tracking system deliberately disabled and flown off course for more than six hours after it disappeared from the radar.
Onboard the flight were more than 150 Chinese passengers, 50 Malaysians, and citizens of France, Australia, Indonesia, India, the U.S., Ukraine and Canada, among others.
