Hunt for missing MH370 resumes more than a decade after plane vanished

The hunt for the missing flight is set to resume more than a decade after it went missing.

Malaysia’s transport minister, Anthony Loke, confirmed the search has been resumed by Maritime exploration firm Ocean Infinity.

He said he welcomed ‘the proactiveness of Ocean Infinity to deploy their ships’.

It has not yet been revealed how long the search would last for or when exactly Ocean Infinity started the search for the missing aircraft.

MH370 has baffled people for almost a decade now after it disappeared from radar shortly after taking off from Kuala Lumpur airport in March 2014.

The 12 crew and 227 passengers were bound for Beijing but never made it to the city.

Contact was entirely lost with the aircraft 40 minutes after it took off from Kuala Lumpur.

As the aircraft entered Vietnamese airspace, Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah signed off with ‘Good night, Malaysian three seven zero’.

It left its flight path and swung back over northern Malaysia and Penang Island. It then went out towards the tip of the Indonesian island of Sumatra. The aircraft then turned south and all contact was lost.

To this day, the plane has never been found. Its disappearance remains one of aviation’s greatest ever mysteries.

Based on satellite data analysis, it’s thought the plane likely crashed somewhere in the southern Indian Ocean, off the coast of western Australia.

But the unusual part about this is that two major searches have failed to yield significant findings.

Various searches by the likes of Australia, China and Malaysia covering a whopping 46,332 sq miles were conducted but no traces of plane have ever been found.

Those who lost loved ones on that fateful day have welcomed the news of the new search.

This includes Malaysian Grace Nathan, 36, who lost her mum on the doomed jet and told AFP: ‘We’re very relieved and pleased that the search is resuming once again after such a long hiatus.’

Jaquita Gonzales, 62, wife of MH370 flight supervisor Patrick Gomes, said: ‘We just want to know where it is and what happened. Memories come back like yesterday, it’s fresh in our heads.’