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Malaysian Minister Pledges to Renew Hunt for Flight MH370 Decade After Its Disappearance

A girl writes a condolence message during the Day of Remembrance for MH370 event in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Malaysian Transport Minister Anthony Loke on Sunday pledged to resume the search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 that vanished from air traffic radar en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing in 2014. “As I stand before you, and make this promise, I will do everything possible to gain evidence, to sign a new contract with [US seabed exploration company] Ocean Infinity for the search to resume as soon as possible,” the minister was quoted as saying by the Malay Mail newspaper. The authorities are now waiting to meet with representatives of Ocean Infinity, who were invited to Malaysia after the company’s previous contract to look for the plane wreckage ended in 2018, the minister added. WorldX Marks the Spot? New Targets for MH370 Search Reportedly Uncovered by Scientists13 February 2020, 10:41 GMTOcean Infinity carried out a “no find, no fee” mission to locate the missing passenger jet in the southern Indian Ocean between January and May 2018, a year after an official search by Malaysia, Australia and China yielded no results. On the night of March 8, 2014, Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, a Boeing 777-200 with 227 passengers and 12 crew members on board, disappeared from radar during a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. The plane is believed to have gone down in the southern Indian Ocean. Its crash site has not been found yet.

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