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Searches for the MH370 flight from Malaysia Airlines, which disappeared with 239 people on board, over the Indian Ocean in March 2014, were interrupted again.
The Ocean Infinity, which began the third search in late February last year, “interrupted the operation for now,” Malaysian Transport Minister Anthony Loke said.
Still, the British company promised Resume the investigation by the end of the year.
The disappeared on March 8, 2014, about 40 minutes after the Malaysian capital, Kuala Lumpur, bound for Beijing.
The night flight had mysteriously reversed the course and flew southern the Indian Ocean until it ran out of fuel. THE plane mysteriously disappeared When he left Malay airspace and entered Vietnamese airspace, without the causes still known, 11 years later.
Official searches – which cost about $ 130 million and covered an area of 120,000 square kilometers in the Indian Ocean – held at the time found no traces of the aircraft.
Ephers of spending about $ 130 million, official searches were suspended in 2017, covering an area of 120,000 square kilometers in the Indian Ocean.
33 pieces of wreckage – Considered to be highly likely to belong to MH370 – were in the Mauritius, Madagascar, Tanzania and South Africa.
Aboard Boeing 777 were 239 people: 153 Chinese, 50 Malayses (12 of which were part of the crew), seven Indonesians, six Australians, five Indians, four Frenchmen, three Americans, two neozelands, two Ukrainians, two Canadians, two Iranians, one Russian, one Dutch and a Taiwanese.
Malaysia, China and Australia initially performed a joint search, but Operations closed in January 2017 without traces of the device.
Ocean Infinity also tried to locate the plane in an area of about 100,000 square kilometers between January and June 2018, unsuccessfully.
In February last year, the company pointed out that searches are based on credible information and will focus on area that “was neglected” in the last missions. Therefore, it is confident that this time there will be “positive results.”
