12 years on, renewed hunt for lacking Flight MH370 comes up empty as households press for solutions | EUROtoday

Twelve years after Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 disappeared with 239 folks on board, a renewed deep-sea search within the southern Indian Ocean has but to find the lacking plane, Malaysian authorities confirmed on Sunday.

This information comes as households of these misplaced proceed to press for the search efforts to persist.

The Air Accident Investigation Bureau acknowledged {that a} seabed search, undertaken by marine robotics agency Ocean Infinity between March 2025 and January 2026, coated hundreds of sq. kilometres of the ocean ground.

However, this in depth operation has not yielded any confirmed findings of the plane’s wreckage.

Malaysia had beforehand given approval to the Texas-based firm final yr to restart the seek for Flight 370.

This was below a “no-find, no-fee” settlement, specializing in a brand new 15,000-square-kilometre (5,800-square-mile) website within the southern Indian Ocean, the place the aircraft is broadly believed to have crashed. Ocean Infinity is simply resulting from obtain $70 million if the wreckage is efficiently found.

The search was carried out for 28 days in two phases — March 25–28 final yr and Dec 31, 2025, to Jan 23 this yr, masking about 7,571 sq. kilometers (2,923 sq. miles) of seabed, the bureau stated. Weather periodically disrupted operations, it stated.

“The search activities undertaken have not yielded any findings that confirm the location of the aircraft wreckage,” it said in a statement. It didn’t give details on when the search will resume.

The Boeing 777 plane vanished from radar shortly after taking off on March 8, 2014, carrying 239 people, mostly Chinese nationals, on a flight from Malaysia’s capital, Kuala Lumpur, to Beijing. Satellite data showed the plane turned from its flight path and headed south to the far-southern Indian Ocean, where it is believed to have crashed.

An expensive multinational search failed to turn up any clues to its location, although debris washed ashore on the east African coast and Indian Ocean islands. A private search in 2018 by Ocean Infinity also found nothing.

Voice 370, representing the families of some of those aboard the missing plane, urged the government to extend Ocean Infinity’s contract and to consider similar arrangements with other deep-sea exploration companies.

Although Ocean Infinity’s contract runs until June, the group said the company’s vessel has been redeployed for other work and is unlikely to return soon to complete the remaining search areas due to the approaching winter months and deteriorating sea conditions.

“The government pays nothing unless the aircraft is found. Any request by Ocean Infinity to extend the search contract should therefore be granted without hesitation,” it said in a statement. “If the present search is unsuccessful, we would also urge Malaysia to kindly consider extending similar no find, no fee opportunities to other capable deep sea exploration companies.”

The group vowed to “continue the fight for answers. We will never give up!”