"The on-again, off-again search for the wreckage of the Malaysian airliner that went missing 11 years ago is now back on. On Wednesday, the country's transportation ministry announced that the marine survey company Ocean Infinity would begin scanning the Indian Ocean seabed on December 30, with the project to take 55 days, conducted "intermittently." The new search appears to be a continuation of an effort first announced by Malaysia last November,"
"Ocean Infinity, which operates a fleet of more than a dozen marine survey vessels all around the world, had earlier scanned a much larger area of 43,000 square miles in just three months, so the new mission is relatively modest in scope. In March, the company dispatched a 256-foot vessel called Armada 78 06 to an area approximately 1,000 miles west of Perth, where it scanned an area that had previously been searched"
Ocean Infinity will begin scanning the Indian Ocean seabed on December 30 in a 55-day intermittent mission to search for Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370. The Boeing 777 disappeared on March 8, 2014, after flying electronically dark 40 minutes after departing Kuala Lumpur with 239 people aboard and later apparently flew to a remote area of the southern Indian Ocean. Only a few dozen debris pieces have been recovered. The new operation continues a plan announced last November that would pay Ocean Infinity $70 million only if the wreckage is found, targeting roughly 6,000 square miles after prior searches covered larger and adjacent areas.
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