After 11 years of the mysterious disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, a new search is about to begin in the hope of solving the world's biggest aviation mystery.
The Armada of Ocean Infinity is moving from Mauritius to the area where MH370 is suspected of crashing, about 1,500 km west of Perth, Australia in the Indian Ocean.
"It's great that the search has begun to bring comfort to the relatives of passengers on the flight," aviation expert Geoff Thomas told 9News of Australia.
There were 239 people on the Malaysia Airlines flight that went missing on March 8, 2014.
The new search will focus on an area 30 km away from the previous search.
"The new research is funded by British aerospace engineer Richard Godfrey. Mr. Godfrey has developed a revolutionary tracking system that uses amateur radio waves. There is an extremely high possibility that we will find MH370," Thomas said.
Ocean Infinity - a US and UK company - has agreed with the Malaysian government on a new search for MH370. If MH370 is found, Ocean Infinity will be paid $70 million.
9News said that the contract has not yet been signed but the search for MH370 is still being accelerated. The Ocean Infinity ship is expected to arrive at the 15,000 square kilometre search area for MH370 on February 23 at the earliest.
In December 2024, Malaysian Transport Minister Anthony Loke informed that the Malaysian cabinet had agreed to continue the search for the missing MH370 of Malaysia Airlines. The search was conducted by Ocean Infinity.
The search will be conducted in a new area estimated at 15,000 square kilometers in the southern Indian Ocean. The contract to search for MH370 implemented by Ocean Infinity will last 18 months.
Ocean Infinity searched for MH370 in the Indian Ocean from 2017 to late 2018. In March 2024, the Texas-based company announced it had found new scientific evidence for MH370's final location. In early November 2024, in a separate statement to GB News, Ocean Infinity said the company had strengthened its understanding "of MH370's location."
