Search for MH370 postponed due to weather, to resume next summer
A man passes by a mural of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 in Shah Alam, Selangor, on March 8, 2023. — Picture by Yusof Mat Isa
Thursday, 03 Apr 2025 12:00 PM MYT
KUALA LUMPUR, April 3 — The search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 has been postponed to next summer in the Southern Hemisphere due to seasonal weather changes and prior commercial commitments by Ocean Infinity.
According to a Facebook post today by the Association for Families of the Passengers and Crew on board MH370, the marine robotics company had arrived at the proposed search zone earlier but only officially began searching on March 25 after signing the contract.
“Ocean Infinity suspended their search on March 28 and shall resume the search during the next summer in the Southern Hemisphere,” the association said in the posting.
Ocean Infinity previously attempted to locate the missing aircraft using the Seabed Constructor between January and May 2018 under a “no cure, no fee” contract with the Malaysian government.
Founded in 2017, the company is based in Austin, United States, and Southampton, United Kingdom, and specialises in using robotics to collect data from the ocean and seabed.
Transport Minister Anthony Loke had previously said the government has signed an agreement with Ocean Infinity to resume the search for MH370.
However, he said yesterday that while the agreement has been finalised, the search has been paused due to adverse weather conditions.
Loke added that the search would resume at the end of the year.
The Southern Ocean, stretching unending from Perth until South Africa is a terrifying stretch of ocean in the Southern Hemisphere Autumn and Winter.
ReplyDeleteOne time standing at the beach at Fremantle looking Westward, I had sobering thought that there was no land at all until you reach Africa, more than 8,000 km away. Just a vast, empty sea.
Nowadays , people just fly across in a long -haul jet . In the old days not that long ago, it was a long and dangerous sea voyage.
It is strange that the majority of the passengers were from 5,000yo Bullyland, they have the largest Navy in the world and at least four ports in the Yindian Ocean (Djibouti, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Myanmar) but they never offer to help search?
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