The most modern search ship of Ocean Infinity (Source: The Star)Kuala Lumpur (VNA) – Malaysia’s Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamadannounced on May 30 that the search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370,which ended this week with no trace found, may be resumed if new evidence comesto light.
He made the announcement after athree-month search carried out by Ocean Infinity, an America-based firm,officially ended on May 29 without making major progress.
The Texas-based company has carried outthree-month search in a massive swathe of seabed measuring 112,000 squarekilometres, four times wider than the area where experts believe that theflight crashed.
“We have not found any evidence yet, so wehave to come to a stage where we cannot keep searching for something we reallycannot find,” Mahathir said at a press conference held after the weekly cabinetmeeting.
He added that the new government willconsider resuming the search if somebody can provide any information, but atthe moment it must stop.
The Boeing 777 vanished on March 8, 2014while flying from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to Beijing, with 239 people on board.
A largest search in the history of aviationsector was conducted around 120,000 square kilometers in the Indian Ocean, ledby Australia with the engagement of China and Malaysia. The campaign, whichcost 159 million USD, was halted in January 2017 after almost three years. Sofar, no traces of the flight were discovered, either the reason behind theaccident.-VNA
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