A new search is underway to find the Malaysia Airlines flight that disappeared in 2014 and was presumed to have crashed into the Indian Ocean.
On February 26, 2025, Malaysian Transport Minister, Anthony Loke, told reporters that US/UK marine robotics firm Ocean Infinity had mobilized its ships in an effort to solve the mystery behind flight MH370’s disappearance.
According to live data from Marine Traffic, Ocean Infinity’s search support ship Armada 7806 is already positioned over 1,000 miles off the west coast of Australia where it’s understood the hunt for the missing aircraft has already begun.
During his press conference, Minister Loke said that the contract was still being finalized but he “welcomed the proactiveness of Ocean Infinity to deploy its ships”.
The minister said that Ocean Infinity had provided the Malaysian government with a “combination of findings from various experts” and “felt the new current search area is more credible”.
“They have covered a large area previously and this is the area they have missed in the past so they are confident that this area will come back with a positive result. They have convinced us they are ready to take the risk and to resume the search. That is why the Malaysian government is proceeding with it,” said Minister Loke.
Ocean Infinity will use highly advanced autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) to conduct the search for the missing Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777.
In December 2024, the Malaysian government announced that a new search to find flight MH370 would be centered on 15,000 square kilometers of ocean off the coast of Western Australia.
The contract with Ocean Infinity, which led the search in 2018, would involve a fee of $70 million if the missing aircraft was found
There were 227 passengers and 12 crew onboard flight MH370 when it disappeared on March 8, 2014, while traveling from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.
There were 14 different nationals on the flight including 153 passengers from China and 38 passengers and 12 crew from Malaysia.
While the cause of the disappearance has never been confirmed, theories have included mechanical failure, a hijacking attempt, or a deliberate intervention by those in the cockpit, causing the total loss of the aircraft.
Questions remain unanswered as to why the aircraft steered off course and across the Indian Ocean.
“The change in flight path probably resulted from manual inputs,” the Malaysian government’s 449-page report said in 2018.
