New Evidence in Search for Missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, Company Claims

A company in Texas claims to have new evidence that may help in the search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, a Boeing 777 which disappeared from air traffic control radars just after midnight on March 8 2014, while flying over South China Sea.

The Texas-based company Ocean Infinity is claiming that it has new scientific evidence of the missing plane’s final resting place, and has put forward a proposal for a new search in the southern Indian Ocean where the aircraft is thought to have crashed 10 years ago. It has already submitted the proposal to the Malaysian government.

Ocean Infinity has proposed a no-cure, no-fee mission, meaning the company will not be paid for its services unless it secures a positive outcome.

The company’s chief executive Oliver Plunkett said “We now feel in a position to be able to return to the search for MH370, and have submitted a proposal to the Malaysian government. Finding MH370 and bringing some resolution for all connected with the loss of the aircraft has been a constant in our minds since we left the southern Indian Ocean in 2018.

“Since then, we have focused on driving the transformation of operations at sea; innovating with technology and robotics to further advance our ocean search capabilities,” he told the Independent.

What Happened to Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370?

Not long after taking off from Kuala Lumpur on March 8 2014, the Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 vanished from air traffic control radars while flying above the South China Sea. In the weeks that followed, scrupulous analysis of radar data and a series of satellite pings showed that the plane went off course, heading west across the Southeast Asia peninsula before altering its path southward over the Indian Ocean.

There were 239 people on board, including 12 crew members. Malaysia’s transport minister Anthony Loke told reporters that he has agreed to discuss a no cure, no fee proposal with Ocean Infinity, to continue the search for the Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.

“I am very, very confident that the government of Malaysia and cabinet will approve such a proposal,” he said. Plunkett said the company was analysing the data in the hopes of narrowing the search area. “This search is arguably the most challenging, and indeed the most pertinent one out there.

“We’ve been working with many experts, some outside of Ocean Infinity, to continue analysing the data in the hopes of narrowing the search area down to one in which success becomes potentially achievable. We hope to get back to the search soon,” he told the Independent.

Six years ago, Ocean Infinity carried out a three-month search on a no-cure, no-fee basis, covering roughly 112,000 square kilometers, but this effort mission came to a close without yielding positive results.