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one deep sea search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 has arrived at indian ocean, try again to solve More than a decade after the plane disappeared, one of aviation’s biggest mysteries remains There were 239 people on board.
The Malaysian Ministry of Transport said on Wednesday that a search ship named “Armada 86 05” had arrived at the designated search area with two autonomous underwater vehicles after being prepared at the port of Fremantle in Western Australia.
The location of the search area was not disclosed.
The government did not specifically mention Ocean unlimitedThe company, which had previously led one search, had long been lined up to lead a new search, but the government-assigned number has been widely identified by maritime and aviation websites as belonging to Ocean Unlimited.
In early December, the Malaysian government said the Texas-based marine robotics company would begin searching target areas on the seafloor under a new “no discovery, no fee” agreement.
Ocean Infinity has confirmed it is resuming the search for MH370 but declined to comment further, citing the “important and sensitive” nature of the operation.
Ocean Infinity previously searched the seafloor in 2018 under a similar contract but found no trace of the aircraft. The company said it has since upgraded its technology and refined its analysis. Its chief executive, Oliver Plunkett, said last year that the company was working with multiple experts and narrowing the search to what it believed was the most likely site of the crash.
Earlier this year, Ocean Infinity briefly resumed undersea search operations in a new area of 15,000 square kilometers (5,800 square miles) in the south. indian ocean After receiving approval from Malaysia, the work was suspended in April due to bad weather.
The Malaysia Airlines plane disappeared from radar shortly after taking off from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8, 2014. Satellite data later showed the plane veered off its intended route and headed south into the remote southern Indian Ocean, where investigators believe it crashed. There was never an explanation for the course changes.
A costly and protracted multinational search failed to find the plane, although fragments believed to be wreckage later washed up on the coast of East Africa and on islands in the Indian Ocean. No major wreckage or bodies have yet been found.