Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia – It has been a decade since Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 vanished.
But today, Kuala Lumpur announced that a renewed search for the long missing aircraft will finally resume this month.
According to the Malaysian Transport Ministry, the US-based marine robotics firm Ocean Infinity has officially given its green light to restart its deep-sea search beginning December 30, an operation expected to run for 55 days.
Kuala Lumpur says the mission will be conducted intermittently.
Ocean Infinity is the company that led the previous search operations in 2018 in the southern Indian Ocean, an area suspected to be one of the final resting places of the airplane.
However, their search ended with no confirmed findings.
During the first quarter of this year, their latest operation was also halted due to poor weather conditions.
Flight MH370 disappeared on March 8, 2014, while flying from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.
A total of 239 people were on board.
On the other hand between 2015 to 2017, three pieces of aircraft debris were confirmed along coastlines near the Indian Ocean and Africa, with the help of multiple countries.
But despite years of coordinated efforts, the cause of the disappearance and the plane’s exact location, remains one of the greatest unsolved mysteries in aviation history.