The search for the missing MH370 aircraft on the seabed will resume on 30/12. Marine exploration company Ocean Infinity will survey a target area deemed most likely to yield the aircraft's discovery, Malaysia's Ministry of Transport announced today.

The most recent search in the southern Indian Ocean was suspended in April due to an "unfavorable season."

This operation will proceed on a "no find, no fee" basis, meaning the Malaysian government will only pay if Ocean Infinity locates the aircraft.

Ocean Infinity, based in the UK and US, led an unsuccessful search in 2018. Earlier this year, they agreed to resume the operation.

10th anniversary commemoration of the MH370 plane's disappearance, held in Petaling Jaya, Malaysia, in 3/2024. _Photo: AFP_

Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, a Boeing 777-200ER, departed Kuala Lumpur airport on 8/3/2014, bound for Beijing. Shortly after takeoff, it mysteriously vanished from radar screens, astonishing the world.

Based on satellite data, the aircraft was determined to have turned south, run out of fuel, and crashed into a remote part of the Indian Ocean, off the coast of Australia. Two-thirds of the passengers were Chinese, with the remainder from Malaysia, Indonesia, Australia, India, the US, the Netherlands, and France.

MH370's disappearance remains one of global aviation's greatest mysteries.

A multinational search from 2014 to 2017, led by Australia, scoured 120,000 km2 of the Indian Ocean, costing hundreds of millions of USD, but found almost no trace of the plane apart from a few debris pieces.

Huyen Le (According to AFP)