The Malaysian Transport Ministry has just issued a statement saying that the US National Highway Traffic Safety Committee (NTSB) and the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) have appointed a representative to provide technical assistance for the third search for MH370, Malay Mail reported on March 8, 2025.
We are responsible for continuing to search based on reliable information to determine the final location of MH370 and provide the necessary answers to the victims families, the statement said.
Confirming the public's great interest in the third search for MH370, the Malaysian Ministry of Transport affirmed that it is actively completing the agreement of the new search in accordance with the procedures of the Malaysian government.
The statement also reiterated that, according to the decision of the Malaysian cabinet on December 13, 2024, Malaysia has approved a proposal from Ocean Infinity to conduct a search for MH370 in the southern Indian Ocean.
This search for MH370 will review an area of about 15,000 square kilometres, conducted on the principle of no find, no fee.
Last month, the deepwater support ship Armada 7806 of Ocean Infinity arrived at the search area in the Indian Ocean, about 1,900 km from Perth, Australia.
In a conversation with Metro.co.uk, MH370 experts said that the future of this search for MH370 has different meanings for all parties.
The search for MH370 is not only seen as a way to solve the decades-long mystery but also as a way to bring comfort to those whose relatives are missing on the flight.
David Mearns - oceanologist, director of British rescue company Blue Water Recoveries - commented that the overall success rate of this search for MH370 is 90%.
He understands the difficulty of determining exactly where MH370 crashed. "It's not impossible, it's just that it's more difficult and expensive," he said.
He refused to speculate about what happened to MH370 but wanted to focus on the known data. "The debris has been washed away and recovered. These are the first physical clues we have, which show that it is possible to confirm for sure that MH370 sank in the southern Indian Ocean," he said.
Mearns also said that the search for MH370 will have no future until someone in the Malaysian government comes up and decides to launch it.
Meanwhile, Clive Kessler, an honorary professor at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, who has been studying Malaysia since the 1960s, proposed narrowing the search area for MH370. "We have to focus on captain Zaharie, Malaysia Airlines, the supervision of the Malaysian government and the initial investigations."
Some investigators believe that MH370 leader Zaharie, 53, and deputy pilot Fariq Abdul Hamid, 27, played a role in the disappearance of the Boeing 777.
"Emphasizing that this is just my personal opinion: Based on the evidence I have collected, I suspect the pilots are responsible for the plane's disappearance," said Millard Coffin, an ocean geophysicist at the Tasmania University, Australia.
