Malaysia confirmed the resumption of search for the wreckage of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370

Malaysian Transport Minister Loke Siew Hock said on the 25th that the underwater exploration company “Ocean Unlimited” has deployed ships in the Indian Ocean to restart the search for the wreckage of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.

In response to media reports earlier in the day about the resumption of the search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, Loke said at a press conference: “Ocean Infinity has started to relocate their vessels…… We have already approved the restart (search) in principle, and for now it is only necessary to finalize the contract and sign it. ”

Loke said the search would not be carried out indefinitely, and the contract would set a clear time frame, with specific details to be finalised.

Loke stressed that Ocean Unlimited has ensured that the new round of search is based on the research and data of a number of experts.

“They believe that the current search area is more credible because they have searched a large area before and believe that this area is the missing part of the previous search.” Loke said Ocean Unlimited’s confidence in making progress in the region and its willingness to take risks is why the Malaysian government has decided to move forward with the initiative.

Earlier in the day, media reported that the Ocean Infinity search vessel Amada arrived in a new search area in the Indian Ocean, about 1,500 kilometers off the coast of Perth, Australia, last weekend and began using underwater robots to search the seabed.

Malaysia previously said that the restart of the search by “Ocean Unlimited” is based on the principle of “no money if you can’t find it”. According to the terms of the contract, any finding must be credible and not just a few fragments, and the specific criteria will be set out in the contract.

On March 8, 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia to Beijing, China, went missing with 239 people on board. On 29 January 2015, the Civil Aviation Authority of Malaysia announced that the passenger plane had crashed and presumed that all persons on board had been killed.

Since the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, the wreckage of the passenger plane has been found in many parts of the world, and the search has been started and interrupted many times. In December, Malaysia said that the search plan proposed by Ocean Unlimited was “credible” and agreed in principle that the company would continue to search for the wreckage of the airliner. The search will be carried out in a new area of the seabed of about 15,000 square kilometres in the southern Indian Ocean.