The search for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 will resume later this month, more than a decade after the jet disappeared in one of the world’s greatest aviation mysteries.
The deep-sea search for missing wreckage of the aircraft will resume on Dec. 30, with U.S-based marine robotics firm Ocean Infinity carrying out the operation intermittently for a period of 55 days, Malaysia’s transport ministry said in a statement Wednesday.
“The search will be carried out in targeted area assesed to have the highest probability of locating the aircraft,” the ministry said, without specifying the location of the search area.
Flight MH370 was carrying 12 crew members and 227 passengers en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing when it disappeared from air traffic radar on Mar. 8, 2014, prompting multiple rounds of search efforts that have proved fruitless.
In March, the Malaysian government approved a new search for the missing aircraft’s debris, commissioning Ocean Infinity on a “no-find, no-fee” contract, in which the company will receive $70 million only if wreckage was discovered. However, the search was halted in April due to bad weather conditions.
