A lady stands in entrance of a condolence message board throughout a Day of Remembrance for MH370 occasion in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on March 3, 2019.
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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Twelve years after Malaysia Airways Flight MH370 vanished with 239 individuals aboard, a renewed deep-sea search within the southern Indian Ocean has up to now did not find the lacking plane, Malaysian authorities stated Sunday, as households pressed for the hassle to proceed.
The Air Accident Investigation Bureau stated in an announcement {that a} seabed search performed by marine robotics firm Ocean Infinity between March 2025 and January 2026 surveyed hundreds of sq. kilometers of ocean flooring however has not produced any confirmed findings of the plane wreckage.
Malaysia gave the nod to the Texas-based firm final 12 months to resume the seek for Flight 370 underneath a “no-find, no-fee” contract at a brand new 15,000-square-kilometer (5,800-square-mile) website within the southern Indian Ocean the place it was believed to have crashed. Ocean Infinity shall be paid $70 million provided that wreckage is found.
The search was carried out for 28 days in two phases — March 25–28 final 12 months and Dec 31, 2025, to Jan 23 this 12 months, overlaying about 7,571 sq. kilometers (2,923 sq. miles) of seabed, the bureau stated. Climate periodically disrupted operations, it stated.
“The search activities undertaken have not yielded any findings that confirm the location of the aircraft wreckage,” it stated in an announcement. It did not give particulars on when the search will resume.
The Boeing 777 airplane vanished from radar shortly after taking off on March 8, 2014, carrying 239 individuals, largely Chinese language nationals, on a flight from Malaysia’s capital, Kuala Lumpur, to Beijing. Satellite tv for pc knowledge confirmed the airplane turned from its flight path and headed south to the far-southern Indian Ocean, the place it’s believed to have crashed.
An costly multinational search failed to show up any clues to its location, though particles washed ashore on the east African coast and Indian Ocean islands. A personal search in 2018 by Ocean Infinity additionally discovered nothing.
Voice 370, representing the households of a few of these aboard the lacking airplane, urged the federal government to increase Ocean Infinity’s contract and to contemplate comparable preparations with different deep-sea exploration firms.
Though Ocean Infinity’s contract runs till June, the group stated the corporate’s vessel has been redeployed for different work and is unlikely to return quickly to finish the remaining search areas as a result of approaching winter months and deteriorating sea circumstances.
“The government pays nothing unless the aircraft is found. Any request by Ocean Infinity to extend the search contract should therefore be granted without hesitation,” it stated in an announcement. “If the present search is unsuccessful, we would also urge Malaysia to kindly consider extending similar no find, no fee opportunities to other capable deep sea exploration companies.”
The group vowed to “continue the fight for answers. We will never give up!”
