The search for Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 will continue more than a decade after the plane went missing.
Malaysia’s Transport Minister Anthony Loke announced Dec. 20 that the country’s government has agreed in principle to carry on the search for wreckage of the flight, which vanished while flying from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8, 2014. The Boeing 777 was carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew members.
“Our responsibility and obligation and commitment is to the next of kin,” Loke said in a press conference, CNN reported. “We hope this time will be positive, that the wreckage will be found and give closure to the families.”
The search—which fill focus on a new area of the southern Indian Ocean—will be conducted by Texas-based marine exploration firm Ocean Infinity, which oversaw the most recent search for the plane’s remains back in 2018.
The transport minister explained that the Malaysian government and the firm are still finalizing their agreement, which is a “no find, no fee” deal, meaning that the firm will receive $70 million only if it discovers substantive wreckage.
