MH370 Search Continues, RM82 million To RM280 million If Found
42 views · Published 10 January 2018 · 1:42 · Indexed 23 October 2026
Channel: 7Edition · 2018 · News & Politics
The search for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 has resumed, a year after the largest search in aviation history was suspended. The Malaysian government and United States-based exploration firm Ocean Infinity Limited, today inked a deal to officially continue the search for the missing jet. The agreement was signed by the Department of Civil Aviation, DCA Director-general Datuk Seri Azharuddin Abdul Rahman and Ocean Infinity chief executive officer Oliver Plunkett. According to Transport Minister, Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai, the search operations will commence in a new search area involving 25,000 square kilometres of the Indian Ocean by mid January. The primary mission of Ocean Infinity is to identify the location of the wreckage or debris field and or both of the flight recorders; black box and Flight Data Recorder However, he added the sum will only be paid if the debris or debris field is found within the 90 days time frame. On March 8, 2014, flight MH370 with 239 people on board had dropped off radar shortly after taking off from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, sparking a massive underwater search in the southern Indian Ocean. The incident is also said to be one of the world's greatest aviation mysteries. (Soundbite Of Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai/ Transport Minister.)
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