The mystery of flight MH370: will a new search find the missing airliner after more than a decade?

"More than a decade after Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 went missing after veering thousands of miles off course, its location remains unknown. The Malaysian government has promised to pay a private company, Ocean Infinity, $70m (56m) to search for the plane on a no find, no fee basis. The company intends to target a 15,000 sq km (5,800 sq mile) area in the Indian Ocean where it is thought there is the highest likelihood of finding the missing aircraft."

"Satellites continued to receive hourly signals from the plane indicating it was still flying until just after 8am, when it is believed to have run out of fuel. These hourly signals have been used to triangulate the distance between a satellite and the plane, but this can only place it within a search zone of 120,000 sq km (46,000 sq miles) of the southern Indian Ocean. It's a monstrously big circle, says Simon Maskell, professor of autonomous systems at Liverpool University."

Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 disappeared on 8 March 2014 after turning west from its Kuala Lumpur–Beijing route, carrying 12 crew and 227 passengers. Hourly satellite pings continued until about 08:00, indicating the aircraft likely flew until fuel exhaustion; those pings constrain the location to a roughly 120,000 sq km zone in the southern Indian Ocean. Various debris items matching MH370 have washed up on Indian Ocean shores, but no human remains have been recovered and all aboard are presumed dead. The Malaysian government contracted Ocean Infinity on a no-find-no-fee $70m deal to search a targeted 15,000 sq km area with the highest modeled likelihood of finding the wreck.

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