Ocean Infinity Resumes Search for Missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370
There is still no exact date for the restart of the operation.
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Marine exploration company Ocean Infinity has resumed the search for the missing Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777, which vanished in 2014. The announcement was made this Tuesday by Malaysia’s Transport Minister, Anthony Loke, as reported by Folha de São Paulo and shared by Aeroin.
Loke praised the company’s efforts to mobilize its vessels for a new search operation for the Boeing 777-200ER, registered 9M-RMO, which disappeared on March 8, 2014, while operating flight MH370 from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people on board, including 153 Chinese citizens.
While the exact start date of the search remains unspecified, Loke noted that discussions are still ongoing regarding the mission’s duration.
New Phase of the Search
In December 2023, Malaysia’s government approved a new phase in the search for the missing aircraft. On December 13, 2024, Ocean Infinity’s proposal to explore approximately 15,000 square kilometers in the southern Indian Ocean—an area ten times the size of São Paulo—was provisionally accepted.
This is not the first time Malaysia has enlisted Ocean Infinity in the search for MH370. In 2018, the company conducted a similar operation, scanning 120,000 square kilometers with support from teams in Malaysia, Australia, and China. That effort, which cost approximately $70 million (around 430 million reais at today’s exchange rate), was unsuccessful.
Ocean Infinity, which has teams based in Texas and England, was previously responsible for locating the Argentine submarine ARA San Juan, which disappeared in the Atlantic in 2018, and the French submarine Minerve, found in 2019 after vanishing in the 1960s.
An Unsolved Aviation Mystery
The disappearance of Flight MH370 remains one of aviation’s greatest mysteries. Despite extensive search efforts over the years, the aircraft’s wreckage has never been found.
The tragedy has fueled multiple theories, including speculation that pilot Zaharie Ahmad Shah, then 53 years old, may have deliberately diverted the aircraft. A 495-page report published in 2018 suggested that the plane’s controls might have been intentionally manipulated, but it did not identify a perpetrator or provide a definitive conclusion.
Investigators have stated that solving the case depends on the discovery of new wreckage.
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