government Malaysia This was announced Wednesday The search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 will resume on December 30The plane disappeared with 239 people on board in March 2014, shortly after taking off from Kuala Lumpur en route to Beijing.
According to a statement by the Ministry of Transportation. Operations will last 55 days and will be carried out by Ocean Infinitya US- and UK-based marine exploration and robotics company that has participated in previous missions.
The company and the Malaysian government confirm that “search operations will begin” in a limited area of the Indian Ocean, which has been identified as the most likely to locate the remains.
The Boeing 777 lost radar contact on March 8, 2014, about 40 minutes after takeoff, after exiting Malaysian airspace and entering Vietnam. Then, according to the latest analysis, the plane diverted to the southern Indian Ocean for reasons that remain unexplained.
On board were 153 Chinese nationals, 50 Malaysians (including 12 crew members), as well as passengers from Indonesia, Australia, India, France, the United States, New Zealand, Ukraine, Canada, Iran, Russia, the Netherlands and Taiwan.
Between 2014 and 2017, Malaysia, China and Australia conducted joint research covering about 120,000 square kilometers. The most comprehensive operation in the history of aviationBut it was suspended after no remains were found. Ocean Infinity also carried out its own operation in 2018, without results.
The Malaysian government announced last April that the missions had been “temporarily suspended” for operational reasons, but announced that they would resume before the end of the year. The company confirms that the new research is based on “reliable” information You will focus on a sector that “would have gone unnoticed” in previous missions.
The process will be reactivated again under a scheme “Pay for success”: The company will not receive payment unless it finds the wreckage of the plane.
The night Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 disappeared
Flight MH370 took off from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing at 00:41. “Good evening, Malaysia three seven zero,” was the pilot’s last recorded call. Forty minutes later, the Boeing 777 left Malaysian airspace, entered Vietnamese airspace, and inexplicably turned sharply to the west.
Military radars detected that the plane returned over Malaysia, crossed into the Strait of Malacca, and then continued flying for hours toward the southern Indian Ocean. According to Inmarsat satellite data, the plane remained in the air for seven hours and 37 minutes before landing It could have run out of fuel and fallen into the sea.
Despite the massive operations immediately deployed – led by Malaysia, China and Australia, which extended over 120,000 square kilometres, the largest search operation in aviation history – the plane was never found.
The disappearance of MH370 has become one of the most baffling mysteries in modern aviation. The scale of the case has given rise to extreme speculation: from theories of abduction by foreign powers to hypotheses pointing to aliens, black holes or alleged sightings on Google Earth.
“Theories range from the bizarre to the conspiratorial.”said Richard Godfrey, retired aeronautical engineer and creator of mh370search.com. “Nearly 150 books have been written on the subject, each with its own hypotheses.”
Among the most widespread There was an idea that the United States was going to shoot down the plane Or it would have landed at the Diego Garcia military base. Experts ignore this version: MH370 did not have enough fuel and there was no evidence of an attack.
Another theory places the plane in Kazakhstan on the orders of Vladimir PutinThis is not compatible with the recorded path. As happens in every tragedy, accounts have also emerged indicating extraterrestrial abductions.
Despite the conspiratorial hype, serious researchers agree that there is concrete data that allows us to reconstruct much of the trajectory. Godfrey points out that the fuel carried by the 777, the performance of the engines, and the radar and telemetry data received by the Inmarsat satellite are known precisely.
He explains: “We know that the plane continued to fly south for more than seven hours until it ran out of fuel.” also 43 copies were found to be compatible with parts of MH370 On the coast of the Indian Ocean.
Based on all this, the most acceptable hypothesis – although not proven – is that the pilot, Zahari Ahmad Shah, or the co-pilot, deliberately disconnected the tracking systems and They manually took control of the plane in a murder-suicide. The flight simulator in the pilot’s home has a virtual route very similar to the final route. However, no clear psychological observations or evidence have been found to support this theory.
Indonesian specialist Alvin Lee added another look: “With current technology, it is very difficult for an aircraft to disappear without a trace. In Southeast Asia we have a technological superpower like Singapore, capable of locating aircraft in minutes. It is strange for such a large aircraft to disappear.”
Ten years later, despite the uncertainty, research is still open. For family members, this announcement means new hope in a case that has defined civil aviation and remains one of the great mysteries of the 21st century.