A Decade after MH370’s Disappearance, American Company Announces New Search

Ocean Infinity, a Texas-based company, claimed that they have scientific proof of where missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 could have crashed. The company proposed a new search in the southern Indian Ocean and has submitted the proposal to the government of Malaysia. It is believed that the plane disappeared over the Indian Ocean in 2014.

The company has also proposed a “no-cure, no-fee” search under this agreement the government will only pay for services if Ocean Infinity secures a positive outcome. The company earlier conducted an extensive search in 2018.

“Finding MH370 and bringing some resolution for all connected with the loss of the aircraft has been a constant in our minds since we left the southern Indian Ocean in 2018,” the company’s chief executive officer Oliver Plunkett said.

“We now feel in a position to be able to return to the search for MH370, and have submitted a proposal to the Malaysian government,” he further added.

“Since then, we have focused on driving the transformation of operations at sea; innovating with technology and robotics to further advance our ocean search capabilities,” he said.

The disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 remains one of aviation’s biggest mysteries.

On March 8, 2014, the Boeing 777 vanished en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people on board.

There were extensive search efforts, spanning over several years but the wreckage has never been found. The lack of results has left families and investigators baffled.

Some have posited that the flight experienced technical or mechanical difficulties while some also say that the pilot may have made a mistake.

The plane disappeared minutes midnight local time on March 8, 2014. It has been a decade since but the aviation industry and the aviation community as well as conspiracy theorists are baffled as to what might have led to its disappearance.

The flight vanished from air traffic control radars while flying over the South China Sea shortly after taking off from Kuala Lumpur.

“I am very, very confident that the government of Malaysia and cabinet will approve such a proposal,” Malaysia’s transport minister Anthony Loke said.

(with inputs from The Independent)