Search Resumes After 7 Years for Missing Malaysian Passenger Plane Over the Sea

Exploration Company States:
"No Charge If Search Fails"

Search operations for the Malaysian passenger plane that disappeared over the Indian Ocean with 239 people on board 11 years ago are set to resume after about 7 years.

According to major foreign media on the 25th, Ocean Infinity, a U.S. marine exploration company, arrived last weekend in the Indian Ocean area about 1,500 km from Perth, a city in western Australia, with its deep-sea exploration support vessel.

Ocean Infinity immediately began seabed exploration using autonomous underwater vehicles. Exploration activities will be conducted over an area of 15,000 km² for the next six weeks.

Ocean Infinity proposed to the Malaysian government that there is a possibility of finding the missing passenger plane based on the latest information and analysis, and the Malaysian government accepted this. Ocean Infinity agreed to receive $70 million (about 100.2 billion KRW) if the wreckage of the missing plane is found, and will not charge exploration fees if unsuccessful.

The aircraft was Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, which on March 8, 2014, was carrying 239 people including 154 Chinese passengers, en route from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia to Beijing, China, when it suddenly turned toward the Indian Ocean and disappeared.

Malaysia cooperated with China and Australia to conduct search operations over three years in the Indian Ocean west of Australia, but there were no results. They ended the joint search in January 2017. Ocean Infinity also participated at that time but failed to find the fuselage or black box, ending the search in June 2018.

Malaysian authorities announced investigation results suggesting the plane may have deliberately deviated from its route, but no definitive conclusion was reached. This accident remains the worst mystery in aviation accident history.

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