KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) \u2014 Malaysia\u2019s transport ministry said Wednesday that the deep-sea hunt for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 will resume Dec. 30, renewing hopes of finally locating the jet that vanished without a trace more than a decade ago.<\/p>\n
The Boeing 777 plane disappeared from radar shortly after taking off on March 8, 2014, carrying 239 people, mostly Chinese nationals, on a flight from Malaysia\u2019s capital, Kuala Lumpur, to Beijing. Satellite data showed the plane turned from its flight path and headed south to the far-southern Indian Ocean, where it is believed to have crashed<\/a>.<\/p>\n The transport ministry said in a statement that U.S.-based marine robotics firm Ocean Infinity will search intermittently from Dec. 30 for a total of 55 days, in targeted areas believed to have the highest likelihood of finding the missing aircraft. <\/p>\n \u201cThe latest development underscores the government of Malaysia\u2019s commitment in providing closure to the families affected by this tragedy,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n In Beijing, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian said, \u201cWe … appreciate the efforts made by the Malaysian side.\u201d<\/p>\n Malaysia\u2019s government gave the green light in March<\/a> for a \u201cno-find, no-fee\u201d contract with Ocean Infinity to resume the seabed search operation<\/a> at a new 15,000-square-kilometer (5,800-square-mile) site in the ocean. Ocean Infinity will be paid $70 million only if wreckage is discovered. The search was halted in April due to bad weather.<\/p>\n An expensive multinational search failed to turn up any clues to its location, although debris washed ashore<\/a> on the east African coast and Indian Ocean islands. A private search in 2018 by Ocean Infinity also found nothing<\/a>.<\/p>\n ___<\/p>\n Associated Press writer Ken Moritsugu in Beijing contributed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) \u2014 Malaysia\u2019s transport ministry said Wednesday that the deep-sea hunt for Malaysia Airlines Flight…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":421545,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[166,13214,9710,13212,57,67648,8371,196812,8372,39944,50,80,752,103,107],"class_list":{"0":"post-421544","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-aerospace-and-defense-industry","9":"tag-asia-pacific","10":"tag-beijing","11":"tag-china-government","12":"tag-general-news","13":"tag-indian-ocean","14":"tag-kuala-lumpur","15":"tag-lin-jian","16":"tag-malaysia","17":"tag-malaysia-government","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-politics","20":"tag-robotics","21":"tag-world","22":"tag-world-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115655045902323915","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=421544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}