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MH370 Search Restarts as Ocean Infinity Vessel Reaches Target Zone in Indian Ocean

The no-find, no-fee mission focuses on a refined 15,000-square-kilometre area using upgraded autonomous vehicles after previous hunts failed to locate the wreckage.

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FILE -Relatives of Chinese passengers on board the Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 pray at a prayer room in Beijing, China, April 4, 2014. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)
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FILE -Sarah Nor, the mother of Norliakmar Hamid, a passenger on missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, cries after she attended a briefing on the final investigation report on missing flight MH370 in Putrajaya, July 30, 2018.(AP Photo/Vincent Thian, File)

Overview

  • Malaysia’s Transport Ministry says operations will run intermittently for up to 55 days, with the vessel Armada 86 05 now on station carrying two autonomous underwater vehicles.
  • The team will scan roughly 5,800 square miles with deep-sea drones and advanced sonar, and authorities have not disclosed the precise coordinates.
  • Under the agreement, Ocean Infinity will receive $70 million only if substantive wreckage from the Boeing 777 is found.
  • The renewed effort follows a 22-day search paused in April due to poor weather and earlier multinational operations that mapped about 46,000 square miles without locating the aircraft.
  • Families have welcomed the restart as a chance for answers 11 years after 239 people disappeared, with legal cases ongoing, including a recent Beijing court award to eight Chinese families.