Malaysia green-lights new search for wreckage in Indian Ocean

Malaysian Cabinet has approved a new search for the debris of Malaysian flight MH370 10 years after the aircraft disappeared.

This search covers 15,000 square kilometers of the southern Indian Ocean (15,000 square kilometers) and will be dealt with in accordance with the “No Find, No fee” contract with Ocean Infinity, an exploration company.

LOKE SIEW FOOK Minister of Transportation said he would receive $ 70m (£ 56 million) if the company was found.

The Flight MH370 disappeared in 2014 while traveling to Beijing in Kuala Lumpur in Beijing. Its disappearance is one of the greatest aviation mysteries in the world, and it continues to bother the family of passengers.

Despite the widespread search for several years, no debris was found. In 2017, previous efforts, including $ 150 million (110 million pounds) of multinational search, ended in 2017.

The governments in three countries related to Malaysia, Australia and Chinese said the search will resume that “reliable evidence should emerge” on the location of the aircraft.

In the same term, the 2018 search for Ocean Infinity’s debris failed three months later.

December, Malaysian government In principle, we agreed to resume the search.. But the final negotiations were not completed by March.

On Wednesday, Malaysia’s final approval will now start search.

In his statement, LOKE said, “The government is trying to continue searching and provide closure for the MH370 passenger family.”

The Flight MH370 took off from Kuala Lumpur on March 8, 2014. In less than an hour after takeoff, communication with aviation traffic was lost, and radar showed that it was out of the planned flight path.

Investigators generally agree that the plane has fallen somewhere in the southern Indian Ocean, but the reason for the collision is unclear.

The debris sculpture, which is considered to be from the plane, was washed at the foot of the Indian Ocean for several years after disappearance.

The disappearance of the aircraft caused numerous conspiracy theory, including speculation that the pilot intentionally destroyed the plane.

According to a survey on the disappearance of the aircraft in 2018, the control of the plane was likely to be intentionally manipulated, but it was not concluded afterwards.

Investigators said, “The answer can be decisive only if the debris was found.”

Passengers included people from more than 12 countries. In less than two -thirds, there were Chinese people, 38 Malaysians, and others were with Australia, Indonesia, India, France, Ukraine, the United States and other countries.

Family members of the missing Chinese MH370 passengers met with officials in Beijing in early March to discuss new searches for debris and expressed hope for independent search. Some relatives expressed frustration of the lack of direct communication of Malaysian authorities.

“We promised to be known immediately [but] Li eryou, a 68 -year -old father who lost his 29 -year -old son, said.

“I don’t know completely because many families don’t even know how to access this information,” he told AFP.

Sadly, the family gathered outside the Malaysian embassy in Beijing on the seventh anniversary of the disappearance of the flight earlier this month.

My husband was in Malaysia for film filming and Cheng Liping, who returned to China from MH370, said he hoped to communicate with Malaysia to find the truth.

She told reporters, “Everyone was trapped in pain.” “Exactly what happened is still unknown.”

Due to the fresh search, the mixed reaction of the passenger family was triggered when it was announced in December. Some were called steps for closure, and others described the news as a bitter taste.