The latest MH370 news from AirlineRatings.com said that sources in Malaysia revealed that the Malaysian government cabinet is divided on the proposal to search for MH370 according to the "no find, no fee principle".
The search fee for MH370, if found, will be $70 million. However, many Malaysian cabinet members believe that this money should be allocated to other contents or may simply not want to search for the missing Boeing 777-200ER with 239 people on board.
UK-based search company Ocean Infinity has proposed a new search for the missing Malaysia Airlines plane, largely based on research by MH370 search expert Richard Godfrey - a British aerospace engineer - based on the groundbreaking WSPRnet project.
The groundbreaking work of MH370 search expert Godfrey has been evaluated and analyzed by his colleagues. According to the British expert's research, the MH370 crash site was identified within a 30-km radius, about 1,560km west of Perth, Western Australia.
The area where MH370 is believed to have crashed in the Atlantic is just outside the area of previous MH370 searches and matches Inmarsat satellite data and the University of Western Australia's fractured drift analysis.
One noteworthy point is that finding MH370 means the Malaysian government is likely to face compensation claims because the culprit of the tragedy could be MH370's captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah.
Malaysia is responsible for the international aviation industry in searching for MH370. Otherwise, the International Civil Aviation Organization - the United Nations' aviation regulatory agency - could sanction the airline and launch a separate search.
MH370's disappearance on March 8, 2014 is one of the biggest mysteries in the history of world aviation.
The extensive search for MH370 over the years has yielded no answers. The first phase of the search for MH370 lasted 52 days and was conducted mainly from the air, covering an area of 4.5 million square kilometres, involving 334 search flights. No MH370 debris has been found.
Two subsequent underwater searches for MH370 in the Indian Ocean also failed to find any evidence of the tragedy. The first underwater search, led by Australia, covered 120,000 square kilometres and extended 50 nautical miles through the seventh arc of the Indian Ocean. In January 2017, the governments of Australia, Malaysia and China officially suspended the underwater search after reviewing about 74,000m2 of the Indian Ocean floor, in an effort to cost $150 million.
In January 2018, the Malaysian government began another underwater search in collaboration with the US company Ocean Infinity. After more than 3 months, the search for MH370 ended without finding any evidence of the missing plane.
Over the past 10 years, there have been many exciting theories about the mystery of MH370, along with many claims to have located the plane. However, to date, the whereabouts of the plane and the fate of the passengers and crew of MH370 are still unknown.
This year, Malaysia announced its readiness to resume the search for MH370. The authorities also revealed that they have invited the US company Ocean Infinity to discuss the new search.
