Search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 expected to resume on Tuesday

"The search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 is expected to resume on 30 December, more than a decade after the plane disappeared with 239 people onboard in one of aviation's greatest mysteries. A renewed search by Ocean Infinity, a UK and US-based marine robotics company, had begun earlier this year but was called off in April because of bad weather. The Malaysian transport ministry announced this month that the search of the seabed would be conducted intermittently over 55 days from 30 December."

"Ocean Infinity has agreed a no find, no fee contract with Malaysia, under which the company will search a new 5,800-sq-mile (15,000-sq-km) site in the ocean and be paid $70m (52m) only if wreckage is discovered. The company has declined to comment on the latest search. Flight MH370 veered off course and vanished from air traffic radar during a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on 8 March 2014. It was carrying 12 Malaysian crew and 227 passengers, most of whom were Chinese citizens."

A renewed seabed search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 will resume on 30 December and run intermittently over 55 days. Ocean Infinity agreed a no-find, no-fee contract to search a new 5,800-sq-mile (15,000-sq-km) area and will be paid $70m only if wreckage is discovered. Earlier searches covered more than 46,330 sq miles of the southern Indian Ocean and ended in January 2017. Ocean Infinity conducted a three-month search in 2018 that proved fruitless. Flight MH370 vanished from radar on 8 March 2014 with 239 people aboard. Debris confirmed from the plane has washed ashore while the main wreckage remains undiscovered.

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