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Malaysia govt agrees to resume 'no find, no fee' hunt for flight MH370

Malaysia's government has agreed in principle to accept a second no find, no fee proposal from a US company to renew the hunt for flight MH370, which is believed to have crashed in the southern Indian Ocean more than 10 years ago, Transport Minister Anthony Loke said Friday. Loke said Cabinet ministers gave the nod at their meeting last week for Texas-based marine robotics firm Ocean Infinity to continue the seabed search operation at a new 15,000-square-kilometer site in the ocean. The proposed new search area, identified by Ocean Infinity, is based on the latest information and data analyses conducted by experts and researchers. The company's proposal is credible, he said in a statement. The Boeing 777 plane vanished from radar shortly after taking off on March 8, 2014, carrying 239 people, mostly Chinese nationals, on a flight from Malaysia's capital, Kuala Lumpur, to Beijing. Satellite data showed the plane deviated from its flight path to head over the southern Indian Ocean, .

Malaysia govt agrees to resume 'no find, no fee' hunt for flight MH370
Updated On : 20 Dec 2024 | 2:23 PM IST

Scientist claims MH370 may have been steered into 6000 metre hole in ocean

The Malaysian Airlines flight disappeared after leaving Kuala Lumpur Airport in southern Malaysia en route to Beijing, China, in 2014. MH370 had 239 people on board

Scientist claims MH370 may have been steered into 6000 metre hole in ocean
Updated On : 27 Aug 2024 | 6:13 PM IST

Families of those on missing Flight 370 still looking for answers

Over the past decade, Grace Subathirai Nathan graduated from law school, got married, opened a law firm and had two babies. But part of her is frozen in time, still in denial over the loss of her mother on a missing Malaysia Airlines plane in 2014. There has been no funeral service, and Grace, 35, still speaks of her mother in the present tense. When she got married in 2020, she walked down the aisle with a picture of her mother tucked in a bouquet of daisies chosen because of her mother's name, Anne Catherine Daisy. The Malaysian criminal lawyer has become one of the key faces of Voice 370, a next-of-kin support group, as she channelled her grief into keeping alive the quest for answers in the disappearance of MH370 that has ripped families apart. In terms of going on, I progressed in my career, in my family life ... but I am still trying to push for the search of MH370 to continue. I am trying to push for the plane to be found, so in that way I haven't moved on, Grace said in an

Families of those on missing Flight 370 still looking for answers
Updated On : 09 Mar 2024 | 12:04 AM IST

Malaysia may renew search for MH370 flight decade after it vanished

MH370 vanished on March 8, 2014, on its way to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur with 239 people on board. Investigators concluded the plane deliberately left its planned flightpath, looped back over Malaysia

Malaysia may renew search for MH370 flight decade after it vanished
Updated On : 04 Mar 2024 | 8:54 AM IST

Ocean Infinity, with a high-tech US ship en route to resume hunt for MH370

Research vessel Seabed Constructor, leased by exploration firm Ocean Infinity, has set off from South Africa for the Indian Ocean with the aim of arriving in the search zone by mid-January

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Updated On : 03 Jan 2018 | 6:23 PM IST

Families demand Malaysia accept MH370 hunt offer

Ocean Infinity, a seabed exploration firm, had offered to resume the hunt

Families demand Malaysia accept MH370 hunt offer
Updated On : 11 Aug 2017 | 9:58 PM IST