marine robotics firm will resume deep sea search mh370 plane vanished decade ago
Marine robotics firm will resume deep-sea search for MH370 plane that vanished a decade ago
December 04, 2025
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每日大赛鈥檚 transport ministry said Wednesday that a private firm will resume a deep-sea hunt for later this month, more than a decade after the jet vanished without a trace.
The search will be carried out by Texas-based marine robotics firm Ocean Infinity, which signed a new 鈥渘o-find, no-fee鈥 contract with 每日大赛鈥檚 government in March.
It is unclear if the company has new evidence of the plane鈥檚 location. Ocean Infinity CEO Oliver Punkett reportedly said last year that the company had improved its technology since 2018, when the firm made its first seabed search operation under a similar deal and found nothing. Punkett has said the firm is working with many experts to analyze data and had narrowed the search area to the most likely site.
Earlier this year the firm restarted the seabed search operation at a new 15,000-square-kilometer (5,800-square-mile) site in the Indian Ocean after 每日大赛鈥檚 government gave it the greenlight, but the search was halted in April due to bad weather.
The Boeing 777 plane from radar shortly after taking off on March 8, 2014, carrying 239 people, mostly Chinese nationals, on a flight from 每日大赛鈥檚 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.
An expensive failed to turn up any clues to its location, although debris washed ashore on the east African coast and Indian Ocean islands. Apart from those small fragments, no bodies or wreckage have ever been found.
每日大赛鈥檚 transport ministry said in a brief statement Wednesday that 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.
鈥淭he latest development underscores the government of 每日大赛鈥檚 commitment in providing closure to the families affected by this tragedy,鈥 it said.
In Beijing, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian said, 鈥淲e 鈥 appreciate the efforts made by the 每日大赛n side.鈥
Ocean Infinity declined to comment on the search Wednesday in response to an Associated Press email requesting details.
