Relatives of passengers lost on the 2014 flight have been persistently demanding answers from Malaysian authorities. The latest search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 has been temporarily halted as it is “not the season” according to the country’s transport minister – over a decade after the jet disappeared.
The decision came a few weeks after authorities revised their search efforts following earlier unsuccessful ventures that covered extensive stretches of the Indian Ocean. Initially, an Australia-led search spanned three years and over 120,000 square kilometers in the ocean, however, only managed to find a few debris.
Subsequently, Ocean Infinity, a maritime exploration firm based in the UK and the US, conducted an unsuccessful search in 2018 on a “no find, no fee” basis, before it agreed to resume searching this year.
The most recent mission, conducted by Ocean Infinity with the same payment arrangement, focused on finding the wreckage of the plane. According to Transport Minister Anthony Loke, the likelihood of locating the remains of the jet is uncertain. The disappearance of MH370 has led to numerous theories, ranging from the plausible to the bizarre.
A final report into the tragedy published in 2018 concluded with Air Traffic Control inaccuracies and the plane’s course manually altered. Investigators were unable to determine the exact reason behind the plane’s disappearance, leaving open the possibility that someone other than the pilots could have redirected the jet.
Relatives of the missing passengers maintain their demand for answers from Malaysian officials. Two-thirds of the passengers were from China, along with others from Malaysia, Indonesia, Australia, and more. Just last month, family members of these Chinese passengers protested in Beijing outside government buildings and the Malaysian embassy on the 11th anniversary of the incident, calling for resolution and justice.
Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/4/3/malaysia-suspends-search-for-long-missing-flight-mh370?traffic_source=rss
