Search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 to resume after more than a decade

The hunt for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 volition resume connected Dec. 30, the country’s transport ministry announced Wednesday, much than a decennary aft the airplane’s mysterious disappearance implicit the Indian Ocean.

The Malaysian authorities said that Texas-based marine robotics institution Ocean Infinity is acceptable to statesman a 55-day targeted deep-sea hunt for the missing craft successful the confederate Indian Ocean by the extremity of the month, according to the Associated Press.

On March 8, 2014, the Boeing 777 took disconnected from Kuala Lumpur heading toward Beijing, erstwhile it disappeared astir 90 seconds aft leaving Malaysian airspace, vanishing on with each 239 passengers successful what has go 1 of aviation’s top unsolved mysteries.

Satellite information revealed the level deviated from its formation way and went southbound towards the far-southern Indian Ocean, wherever it is believed to person crashed.

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Malaysian Minister of Transport, Anthony Loke (C) looks astatine the helping flap recovered connected Pemba Island, Tanzania which has been identified arsenic a missing portion of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 done unsocial portion numbers traced to 9M-MRO during a commemoration lawsuit to people the 5th day of the missing Malaysia Airlines MH370 formation successful Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia connected March 03, 2019.  (Adli Ghazali/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)

According to a connection from Malaysia’s Transport Ministry, arsenic reported by AP, Ocean Infinity volition hunt successful targeted areas believed to person the highest likelihood of uncovering the missing aircraft.

"The latest improvement underscores the authorities of Malaysia’s committedness successful providing closure to the families affected by this tragedy," the transport ministry stated.

The announcement comes aft Malaysia’s authorities gave last support successful March for Ocean Infinity to commencement the search, aft agreeing to a "no-find, nary fee" declaration that rewards the institution $70 cardinal lone if wreckage is discovered wrong the 5,800-square-mile site.

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Submersible instrumentality astatine the Ocean Infinity Group Ltd. mill successful Southampton, U.K., connected Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2023. Ocean Infinity volition statesman a 55-day targeted deep-sea hunt for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 successful the confederate Indian Ocean connected Dec. 30.  (Jose Sarmento Matos/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Previously, debris was recovered washed ashore connected the eastbound African seashore and Indian Ocean islands, but a multinational hunt failed to observe clues to MH370’s location.

Ocean Infinity besides conducted a backstage hunt successful 2018 that failed to unearth any, but CEO Oliver Plunkett reportedly said earlier this twelvemonth that his institution had since improved its technology.

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Malaysia Airlines formation 370's tracked by subject radar, according to  Dr. Alan Diehl's book.  (Dr. Alan E. Diehl/"The Best Laid Plans")

Fox News Digital has reached retired to Ocean Infinity for comment.

Fox News Digital’s Greg Norman and the Associated Press contributed to this report.