Overview
- Operations are scheduled to run for 55 days starting December 30, focusing on a roughly 15,000 square kilometre zone of the southern Indian Ocean identified as the highest-probability area.
- The Ministry of Transport confirmed Ocean Infinity will lead the effort under a contingent arrangement reported to require locating the aircraft within an 18-month timeframe to trigger payment.
- The renewed mission follows earlier searches that mapped more than 120,000 square kilometres without finding the main wreck, a 2018 Ocean Infinity effort, and an early-2025 attempt suspended due to weather.
- Flight MH370 vanished on March 8, 2014 with 239 people aboard during a Kuala Lumpur–Beijing route, and debris later found on western Indian Ocean shores did not reveal the primary crash site.
- A 2018 Malaysian report concluded the aircraft’s course was changed manually without determining a cause, and families who have long pressed for answers have welcomed the new search.