MH370: Malaysia is resuming the search for missing 777 airliner, 11 years later

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/26/mh370-search-resumes-malaysia-airlines-ocean-infinity

by bell-cot • 1 year ago

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ReptileMan• 1 year ago

Probably the best summary and why it makes sense to actually search for it, courtesy of mentour pilot.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5K9HBiJpuk

bell-cot• 1 year ago

Detail: Malaysia hired maritime exploration firm Ocean Infinity to do the actual searching. It's a $70M, “no-find-no-fee” deal, for 18 months of search work.

Though if that's the real price - I wonder why this wasn't done years ago, with financing from some combination of crowdsourcing and exclusive media rights contracts. By Hollywood and broadcast industry standards, $70M is really not big money.

ano-ther• 1 year ago

The same firm did that in 2018 in a different area but with a similar contract.

On 17 October 2017, Malaysia received proposals from three companies (including the Dutch company Fugro and the U.S. salvage company Ocean Infinity) offering to continue the search for the aircraft.[237] Later that month, the Malaysian government released a statement that it was in discussion with Ocean Infinity to make a further underwater search in the area to the north of the 2016 search, on the basis of no fee if the wreckage was not found.[238] The search started on 22 January and ended in June 2018 without finding the aircraft.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_for_Malaysia_Airlines...

MH370: Malaysia is resuming the search for missing 777 airliner, 11 years later

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