10 years after, Malaysia may renew its search for disappeared flight MH 370

As the 10th anniversary of the disappearance of Malaysian flight MH370 approaches, the country’s transport minister has said that there must be a renewed search for the doomed flight.

The statement has come after the US-based company which was involved in the search hunt for the missing plane in 2018, proposed a fresh search in the southern Indian Ocean where the Malaysia Airlines plane is believed to have crashed a decade ago.

In what is considered one of the world’s greatest aviation mysteries, Malaysian flight MH 370, a Boeing 777 carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew vanished on its journey from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on the fateful day of March 8, 2014.

Malaysian Transport Minister Anthony Loke announced that Ocean Infinity, a Texas-based seabed exploration company, has been invited to discuss its newest search proposal following two unsuccessful attempts.

At the remembrance event on Sunday, Loke said that the Malaysian government is committed to the search (for MH370) and it must go on.

Earlier, Malaysia, China, and Australia had ended a two-year, A$200 million ($130.46 million) underwater hunt in January 2017 as no clue could be found regarding the flight’s disappearance.

Loke said Malaysia would talk to Australia about cooperation in resuming the search once Ocean Infinity’s proposal is approved by Malaysia’s cabinet.

Meanwhile, the government has maintained it would not support another search without new leads on the plane’s location.