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Sand sculptures depicting the two missing aircraft, Air Asia QZ8501 and Malayasia Airlines MH370, are seen as a form of protest in Puri, India (VEJA.com/AFP). Continued after advertisement
Malaysian authorities said on Sunday (3) that they may resume the search for flight MH370 after an American company trying to find the missing plane proposed a new operation in the south of the Indian Ocean. On March 8, 2014, Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 aircraft took off from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing 239 passengers He mysteriously disappeared on board.
Transportation Minister Anthony Loke said he would invite Texasbased marine robotics company Ocean Infinity to brief him on its latest proposal, made under a “no results, no payments” agreement. The government has long said it would not support another search without new clues about the plane's location.
According to Loke, if the evidence is credible, he will seek Cabinet approval for a new contract to resume searches.
“The government is committed to locating MH370,” Loke said at a commemoration of the 10th anniversary of the plane’s disappearance. “We really hope the search can find the plane and tell the next of kin the truth.”
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A costly multinational search turned up no evidence, although debris washed up on the East African coast and Indian Ocean islands. The sea search, the most important in history, was suspended in January 2017.
A private search conducted by Ocean Infinity in 2018 also found nothing. There was speculation from the start about the causes of the disappearance. This is considered the greatest secret of modern civil aviation.
Many relatives of the victims blamed the airline and the government Malaysia To hide information about the tragedy. The Malaysian authorities deny this.