MH370 search - map of the search area. (Source: ATSB)Hanoi (VNA) – The US technology company Ocean Infinity has announced that itwill soon end searches for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which was believed tohave been lost in the Indian Ocean since 2014.
TheTexas-based company has carried out three-month search in a massive swatheof seabed measuring 112,000 square kilometres, four times wider than the areawhere experts believe that the flight crashed.
Ocean Infinity chief executive Oliver Plunkett said that heis disappointed as no trace of the flight was found, but hopes to be able toresume it at some time in the future.
Lastweek, the Government led by newly-elected Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad saidthat the company would end search activities on May 29 after two extensions ofthe original 90-day time limit.
Under a “no-find, no-fee basis” agreement was signed betweenOcean Infinity and the Malaysian Government in January, 2018, the company willbe paid 70 million USD if it can find the wreckage.
Malaysian Minister of Transport Anthony Loke said that areport on the missing of the MH370 will be released in the coming time, but notrevealed exact time.
TheBoeing 777 vanished on March 8, 2014 while flying from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia,to Beijing, with 239 people on board.
Alargest search in the history of aviation sector was conducted around 120,000square kilometers in the Indian Ocean, led by Australia with the engagement ofChina and Malaysia. The campaign, which cost 159 million USD, was halted inJanuary 2017 after almost three years. So far, no traces of the flight werediscovered, either the reason behind the accident. -VNA
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