The hunt for missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 will resume ten years after the plane mysteriously vanished, Malaysia’s minister said Friday.
The Boeing 777 disappeared en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people on board. Despite a massive search effort, the plane has never been found.
Transport Minister Anthony Loke told a press conference: “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.”
Investigators in Malaysia initially did not rule out the possibility that the aircraft had been deliberately taken off course.
Debris, some confirmed and some thought to belong to the aircraft, has previously washed up along the east African coast and on islands in the Indian Ocean.
Ocean Infinity is the company that has proposed the rescue. It is the same firm that conducted the last search for the plane in 2018.
The company would sign a contract for 18 months and claim $70 million if wreckage found is substantive, Loke said.
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