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The Malaysian cabinet approved the resumption of the search for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.
According to Reuters and Bloomberg, Malaysian Transport Minister Loke Siew Fook announced at a press conference on Friday (December 20) that Malaysia agreed in principle to continue the search for the missing flight MH370, which has been missing for 10 years.
The proposal to restart the search was made by the US seabed exploration company Ocean Infinity. The company conducted the last search for MH370 in 2018 and ended the search in May of the same year.
Ocean Infinity’s search operation is based on the principle of “no success, no fee”. Loke said that if Ocean Infinity finds substantial flight wreckage, it will receive a reward of US$70 million (about S$95.17 million).
“Our responsibility, obligation and commitment is to be responsible to the relatives (of the missing passengers). We hope that this time we can achieve positive results, find the wreckage and give an explanation to the families.”
According to Loke, the search operation will be carried out in a new area of about 15,000 square kilometers in the southern Indian Ocean.
Flight MH370 took off from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on March 8, 2014, with a destination of Beijing, China, carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew members. However, less than an hour after the plane took off, it lost contact with the air traffic control center over the South China Sea and has not been heard from since.
