MALAYSIAN authorities have announced that search efforts for missing flight MH370 are set to resume – more than 10 years after the plane vanished.
Officials are set to scan a new search area in the southern Indian Ocean – and exploration company Ocean Infinity will recieve a whopping £55 million if it finds new wreckage of the jet.
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 went missing in March 2014 with 239 passengers on board
A computerised reenactment shows MH370 crashing into the Southern Indian Ocean as part of a documentary
Since 2014 only a few pieces of confirmed debris from the jet have ever been found
Transport minister Anthony Loke confirmed the government would be launching a fresh search.
He said in a statement that the government has a “responsibility and obligation” to those who lost loved ones when the plane vanished in March 2014.
“Our responsibility and obligation and commitment is to the next of kin. We hope this time will be positive, that the wreckage will be found and give closure to the families,” Loke said.
Underwater robotics company Ocean Infinity previously revealed to The Sun that it had submitted its search proposal for the new hunt.
They told how three of the firm’s robot vessels were ready and waiting for the green light from officials.
The company said a new search would resume in a 15,000sqkm area off the coast of Western Australia, near the last known location of the doomed jet.
Malaysian officials have not confirmed the exact site for the new search.
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