Malaysia will resume the search for the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370. The news was said by the transport minister of Malaysia on Friday.It has been more than 10 years since the flight disappeared.
Flight MH370, carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew, vanished from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.
"Our responsibility and obligation and commitment is to the next of kin," Transport Minister Anthony Loke said. "We hope this time will be positive, that the wreckage will be found and give closure to the families."
MH370's last transmission was about 40 minutes after it took off from Kuala Lumpur for Beijing. The pilots signed off as the plane entered Vietnamese air space over the Gulf of Thailand and soon after its transponder was turned off.
The proposal to resume the search in the southern Indian Ocean came from exploration firm Ocean Infinity, which had conducted the last search for the plane that ended in 2018.
A contract would be signed to cover an 18-month period and the firm would receive $70 million if the wreckage found was substantive and the search would be on the seabed of a new area covering 15,000 sq. km