Marine robotics firm will resume deep-sea search for MH370 plane that vanished a decade ago

KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia AP Malaysia s passage ministry noted Wednesday that a private firm will resume a deep-sea hunt for Malaysia Airlines Flight later this month renewing hopes of in the end locating the jet that vanished without a trace more than a decade ago The search will be carried out by Texas-based marine robotics firm Ocean Infinity which signed a new no-find no-fee contract with Malaysia s leadership in March Ocean Infinity made its first seabed search operation for the plane in under a similar deal and uncovered nothing The firm restarted the seabed search operation at a new -square-kilometer -square-mile site in the Indian Ocean after Malaysia s administration gave it the greenlight but the search was halted in April due to bad weather Ocean Infinity will be paid million only if wreckage is discovered It is unclear if the company has new evidence of the plane s location Ocean Infinity CEO Oliver Punkett reportedly declared last year that the company had improved its device since He has mentioned the firm is working with a great number of experts to analyze content and had narrowed the search area to the most of likely site The Boeing plane disappeared from radar shortly after taking off on March carrying people mostly Chinese nationals on a flight from Malaysia s capital Kuala Lumpur to Beijing Satellite evidence demonstrated the plane turned from its flight path and headed south to the far-southern Indian Ocean where it is concluded to have crashed An expensive multinational search failed to turn up any clues to its location although debris washed ashore on the east African coast and Indian Ocean islands Malaysia s delivery ministry mentioned in a brief comment Wednesday that Ocean Infinity will search intermittently from Dec for a total of days in targeted areas considered to have the highest likelihood of finding the missing aircraft The latest expansion underscores the governing body of Malaysia s commitment in providing closure to the families affected by this tragedy it stated In Beijing Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian reported We appreciate the efforts made by the Malaysian side