Missing flight MH370: Malaysia announces resumption of search for plane

Marine exploration company Ocean Infinity has resumed the search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 that disappeared in 2014 between Kuala Lumpur and Beijing, Malaysian Transport Minister Anthony Loke said on Tuesday.

The minister praised "the willingness of Ocean Infinity to deploy its ships" to resume the search for the Boeing 777 that disappeared from radar on March 8, 2014 with 239 people on board, including 153 Chinese. Anthony Loke, who did not specify when the search resumed, indicated that details on their duration had not yet been negotiated.

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The Malaysian government announced at the end of December that it had approved the launch of new searches to find the plane that mysteriously disappeared ten years ago. On December 13, the government "accepted in principle the proposal of Ocean Infinity" to continue the investigations "in a new area estimated at 15,000 square kilometers in the southern Indian Ocean , " Minister Anthony Loke said.

Despite the searches undertaken after the disaster, considered the most important in the history of aviation, the aircraft was never found.