Search For Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 To Resume After Nearly A Decade After It Went Missing

Over a decade after Malaysia Airlines Flight MH 370 disappeared, the Malaysian government has agreed “in principle” to resume the search for the missing aircraft. 

On March 8, 2014, the flight, with 239 passengers and crew members aboard, mysteriously vanished while flying from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.

In 2017, after two years of in-depth search, a $150 million multinational effort to find the aircraft was called off, with the understanding that the investigation would be revisited “should credible new evidence emerge.” In 2018, the U.S.-based robotics company Ocean Infinity attempted to find the plane’s wreckage but ended the investigation unsuccessfully after three months.

In late December 2024, Malaysia’s transport minister Anthony Loke purportedly approved the idea of a $70 million deal with Ocean Infinity to resume the search for the plane. 

Though the deal between the government and Ocean Infinity has been accepted “in principle,” specifics of the deal are said to still be in the discussion. The deal is expected to be finalized by early next year.

Ocean Infinity’s search is set to cover 15,000 square kilometers in the Indian Ocean. 

Relatives of passengers from the missing flight have expressed their excitement over the re-vamped efforts to find the flight, as well as the new technology developed to prevent such disappearances.

Chief of Operation Safety at the Air Navigation Bureau Miguel Marin told CNN, “It was inconceivable that in this day and age we would love an airplane that big without a trace.” Since the incident, the aviation industry has been hard at work developing new technology that would supposedly make such cases impossible.

The technology developed, called the Global Aeronautical Distress and Safety System (GADSS), is an advanced way to track the plane’s location, monitoring the plane’s position every 15 minutes and issuing new directions for emergencies.

At the time the aircraft vanished, Flight 370’s location mysteriously stopped transmitting just a few minutes after the plane’s last radio call. It is now mandated that every flight have a “distress tracking system.” However, some skeptics have pointed out that the suspicious disappearance of the flight already defies logic, and advanced technology would make no difference in the already unthinkable circumstance.

In 2015, parts of the plane washed up on Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean. The leading theory is that the pilot intentionally crashed the plane into the ocean.

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