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The Malaysian government said Sunday it is pushing for a renewed search for Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, which disappeared nearly a decade ago while en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.
Flight MH370 was a Boeing 777 carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew when it disappeared on March 8, 2014.
The plane's disappearance is one of the world's biggest aviation mysteries after Australia, China and Malaysia ended an unsuccessful $157 million search operation in January 2017.
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Investigators in Malaysia have not ruled out the possibility that the airliner intentionally veered off course, as confirmed and suspected debris from the plane washed up on the coast of Africa and islands in the Indian Ocean.
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A young child watches Malaysia Airlines planes on the tarmac hoping for the return of missing flight MH370 at Kuala Lumpur International Airport outside Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Tuesday, March 11, 2014. (Joshua Paul/NurPhoto/NurPhoto/Corbis via Getty Images)
On Sunday, Malaysian Transport Minister Anthony Loke said Ocean Infinity, a US-based company that explores the seabed, had been invited to discuss the latest search proposal after two previous attempts failed.
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“The Malaysian government is committed to the search (for MH370) and the search must continue,” Loke said at a memorial event on Sunday.
The minister also said Malaysia would discuss cooperation with Australia to resume the search once the Ocean Infinity proposal is approved by the Malaysian government.
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A President of CASSA Malaysia, Dr. Jacob George, shows the coordinates of the location where Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 is believed to have crashed during a press conference on January 16, 2019 in Subang Jaya outside Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. (Mohd Samsul Mohd Said/Getty Images)
Ocean Infinity did not immediately respond to requests for comment from Fox News Digital on the matter.
One of the victims of the ill-fated flight was Anne Daisy, and her husband, VPR Nathan, said Ocean Infinity's proposal included a “no find, no fee” option, which he welcomed.
“We want the search to continue, but we also have to be realistic,” he said. “We cannot expect the government to spend billions [on the search].”
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The flight's disappearance sparked a multi-year search that resulted in a confusing and tangled series of revelations that have yet to produce a clear conclusion about what happened. After three years, Malaysian authorities called off the search and subsequent search efforts were short-lived.
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Malaysian Transport Minister Anthony Loke (center) looks at the wing flap found on Pemba Island, Tanzania, identified as a missing part of Malaysia Airlines during a commemoration ceremony to mark the 5th -Flight MH370 was identified on the anniversary of the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on March 3, 2019. (Adli Ghazali/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
A Netflix documentary released in March 2020 examined the timeline of the plane's disappearance and spoke to some of the more prominent voices and actors involved in the response and search for the plane.
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The documentary also revived some of the more outlandish theories about what happened to the plane.
After its disappearance, the plane sent out several “pings” that the London-based satellite company Inmarsat recorded and tracked over the next six hours.
Using the pings, the company was able to confirm that the plane had flown back via Malaysia somewhere over the Indian Ocean before the last ping. After that, the mystery deepened. Inmarsat used the data to determine that the plane was flying south into the Indian Ocean rather than north over continental Asia.
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In the years that followed, Blaine Gibson, a self-described amateur “adventurer,” found several pieces of the plane washed up on islands around the Indian Ocean that airlines said matched the Boeing 777. And they noted that this was sufficient evidence that the plane crashed, as no other aircraft had been reported missing in recent years. It's the closest thing to validation they think the families will get.
Just last year, a retired fisherman claimed he had found a large piece of the missing plane off the coast of Australia.
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Retired Australian fisherman Kit Olver said in an interview with the Sydney Morning Herald that he discovered the piece of aircraft during a deep-sea fishing expedition when his trawler appeared to lift a wing.
He said he had remained silent for nine years but wanted to share the information to help the families of those aboard MH370.
Fox News Digital's Sarah Rumpf-Whitten and Portal contributed to this report.