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Malaysia GreenLights a new search for missing MH370 flight | Aviation News


Malaysia hopes as his government finalizes the conditions for a new search for the aircraft that disappeared in 2014.

The Malaysian Government gave final approval for a maritime robotics company to renew the search for the Malaysia Airlines MH370 flight, which which, which which disappeared More than a decade ago.

The missing plane with 227 passengers and 12 crew members are thought to have crashed in the Southern Indian Ocean. It remains one of the greatest mysteries of modern aviation.

On Wednesday, the Minister of Transport in Malaysia Anthony Loke said the cabinet agreed to the terms and conditions for an agreement with Ocean Infinity, a maritime robotics company based in the United States, which also made two previous Boeing 777 searches, of which the most experience ended in 2018.

“The government is committed to continuing the search operation and to ensure the closure of the MH370 passengers,” Loke said, announcing the progress of the agreement, which he said he would last 18 months.

Although the finalized deal authorizes $ 70 million for an ocean infinity, it is a “no -charge” policy, which means that the company is paid only upon successful finding the remains.

Private search in 2018 by Ocean Infinity found nothing.

According to Minister Loke, the new demand is estimated at 15,000 square kilometers (5 790 square miles) in a new place in the Southern Indian Ocean.

This follows a previous search, conducted by Malaysia, Australia and China, covering 120,000 square km (46 332 square meters) of the South Indian Ocean. The efforts at this time were based on automatic connection data between Inmarsat satellite and the aircraft.

The final approval for a new search came three months after Malaysia nod Generally, plans for new search.

One holds a balloon during an event conducted by relatives of passengers and supporters to mark the 10th year after the flight of Malaysia Airlines Malaysia Airlines MH370
Man holds a balloon during an event to celebrate the 10th year since MH370 disappeared (File: Arif Kartono/AFP)

As the MH370 disappeared, investigators find that the aircraft's communication systems are excluded from less than an hour in the flight overnight. However, the military radars raised signals showing that the plane had turned back through Malaysia, skipped Penang Island and set a course to northern Sumatra.

All 26 countries that have joined their efforts in the mission of searching and rescuing the missing planes have been producing no results.

After a weeks of unsuccessful search efforts, the Malaysian government announced that the plane was flying until its fuel tanks were emptied before colliding into the depths of the Southern Indian Ocean.

Since then, the debris, which is thought to be from the doomed flight, have been found washed along the coast of Africa and some islands in the Indian Ocean.

As the demand will be resumed after a break for more than five years, grieving relatives of passengers on the missing flight, they have previously requested compensation from Malaysian Airlines, Boeing, the manufacturer of Rolls-Royce aircraft and the Allianz insurance group, among others.

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