MH370: British search launched for missing Malaysian Airlines flight

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/02/24/major-british-search-launched-for-missing-flight-mh370/

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  1. ***The Telegraph reports***:

    A British marine robotics company has launched what will likely be the final search for missing Malaysian Airlines Flight 370, in an attempt to solve one of aviation’s greatest mysteries.

    Ocean Infinity has begun scouring the seabed in an attempt to find the wreck of MH370, which disappeared 11 years ago after taking off from Kuala Lumpur for Beijing.

    The company’s deep-water support vessel Armada 7806 arrived at a new search zone in the Indian Ocean 1,200 miles off Perth, Australia, over the weekend, marine tracking websites show.

    It is understood that autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) were deployed from the ship within hours of its arrival at the site and have commenced detailed scans of the ocean floor.

    The AUVs – and the remote vehicles that would help recover the wreckage were it to be found – are operated via a satellite link from Ocean Infinity’s control centre in Southampton.

    The deployment may offer the last hope of finding the remains of the lost Boeing 777 that disappeared in March 2014 with 239 people on board.

    MH370 was due to have flown north to Beijing but turned back before reaching Vietnam and veered south-west across the Malay peninsula towards the Indian Ocean, prior to leaving radar range.

    The mission comes after Malaysia indicated in December that it was ready to back a fresh bid to locate the wreckage of the jet, following two earlier failed attempts.

    Kuala Lumpur said at the time that it had given outline approval to a “no find, no fee” deal in which Ocean Infinity would be paid $70m (£55m) only if it found the aircraft.

    However, no final agreement was announced. It is believed that Ocean Infinity has chosen to go ahead with the plan on its own account, before the arrival of winter in the southern hemisphere.

    The Armada 7806 is expected to explore three or four so-called “hotspots” where researchers have suggested that the remains of the plane’s fuselage might be located.

    The vessel is likely to spend up to six weeks poring over the area, including a break to take on provisions in Fremantle, Western Australia, where previous search attempts were based.

    With the search likely to be the last conducted for MH370, the effort could go on for longer, weather permitting.

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  2. Independently search for the aeroplane where all the evidence suggests it most likely hit the ocean? What a sensible idea! Much better than years of deliberately searching in more politically convenient locations.

  3. Malaysian Airways did not want the plane found. It would have confirmed that the pilot killed the passengers and crew and flew it into the ocean deliberately. They were bankrolling the Australian crash safety board search. The Australian board is corrupt – they tried to arrest the journalist responsible for working out where the plane actually was. The search was a complete travesty. Malaysian Airways deliberately directed the Aussies to look in the wrong place. It was absolutely shameful.

  5. Are they checking the storage rooms at the British Museum?

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