Malaysia resumes search for MH370

Malaysia will resume the search for MH370 on 30 December, over a decade after the plane vanished with 239 people onboard.

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00:00The search for the wreckage of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 will resume on 30th December,

00:07more than a decade after the aircraft vanished with 239 people on board.

00:12The Transport Ministry says marine robotics firm Ocean Infinity

00:15has confirmed it will restart seabed search operations for a total of 55 days.

00:22The search started in March this year but was suspended after a few weeks due to bad weather.

00:28The new search will cover an area of approximately 15,000 square kilometers in the southern Indian Ocean.

00:35Ocean Infinity would conduct the mission on a no-find, no-fee basis,

00:40meaning Malaysia pays nothing unless debris is found.

00:44If wreckage is located, the company is seeking US$70 million, the same proposal it made in 2018.

00:51Flight MH370, a Boeing 777, disappeared in 2014 en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing,

01:00triggering the largest search effort in aviation history.

01:04Malaysia, China and Australia previously scoured 120,000 square kilometers of the southern Indian Ocean.

01:11Ocean Infinity's initial mission in 2018 covered a refined 25,000 square kilometer zone

01:18but concluded in June that year without success.