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<\/p>\nA renewed deep-sea search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 has been unsuccessful.<\/p>\n
The Boeing 777 disappeared from radar shortly after departing Kuala Lumpur International Airport en route to Beijing – 12 years ago today.<\/p>\n
In a statement, Malaysia’s Air Accident Investigation Bureau said 28 days of searching, covering more than 2,900 square miles (7,500 sq km), had yielded no new findings.<\/p>\n
A company called Ocean Infinity had been given permission to scour the Indian Ocean on a “no find, no fee” basis.<\/p>\n
The agreement meant it would only be paid $70m (\u00a352m) if the wreckage was located.<\/p>\n
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\n An Australian flight officer scans the waters of the southern Indian Ocean during a search for the missing MH370 in 2014. Pic: AP<\/p>\n
Malaysian officials say they “remain committed to keeping the families informed and will continue to provide updates as appropriate”.<\/p>\n
Voice370 – a group representing the families of those who were on board the flight – have urged the government to extend its contract with Ocean Infinity.<\/p>\n
The search, which happened in two phases, were periodically disrupted by poor weather and conditions at sea. It concluded on 23 January.<\/p>\n
However, campaigners fear a third phase won’t begin before June, when the current contract ends, because the winter months are approaching in the southern hemisphere.<\/p>\n
Voice370 said: “A simple addendum extending the contract period without altering the core terms of the agreement would allow the search to continue without delay.”<\/p>\n
The group added that other exploration firms should be given the opportunity to search on this “no find, no fee” basis.<\/p>\n
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\n 2024: MH370 search back on\n <\/p>\n
MH370 was carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew members when it vanished, becoming one of the world’s most enduring aviation mysteries.<\/p>\n
In 2018, a report by Malaysian investigators drew no conclusion about what happened, but did not rule out the possibility that the aircraft was deliberately taken off course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A renewed deep-sea search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 has been unsuccessful. The Boeing 777 disappeared from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":335141,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-335140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/335141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}