Families of those onboard urge Malaysian government to extend contract with deep-sea exploration firm
Families of those aboard Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 on Sunday urged the Malaysian government to extend a contract it signed with deep-sea exploration firm Ocean Infinity to continue a search for the aircraft that disappeared 12 years ago.
The Boeing 777 was carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew when it vanished en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on 8 March, 2014, becoming one of the world’s enduring aviation mysteries.
Multiple search operations for the plane have been conducted in the southern Indian Ocean since then but all have proved fruitless.
Malaysia in March last year agreed to allow Ocean Infinity to resume the hunt under a “no find, no fee” principle, with the firm to be paid $70m only if the wreckage was successfully located.
