Search Resumes for MH370 more than a Decade after it went Missing

The search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 is set to resume, more than a decade after the aircraft vanished while travelling from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people on board.

FILE - The shadow of a Royal New Zealand Air Force P3 Orion is seen on low level cloud while the aircraft searches for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 in the southern Indian Ocean, near the coast of Western Australia, on March 31, 2014. A decade ago this week, a Malaysia Airlines flight vanished without a trace to become one of aviation's biggest mystery. Investigators still do not know exactly what happened to the plane and its 239 passengers. (AP Photo/Rob Griffith, File) Credit: Rob Griffith/AP

Malaysia's Transport Ministry announced a fresh search of 15,000 square kilometres in the southern Indian Ocean will be carried out by UK and US based marine robotics company Ocean Infinity, on a 'no find, no fee' basis.

Ocean Infinity has confirmed with the Ministry the new seabed search operations will last 55 days, to be conducted intermittently. If they find the wreckage of the aircraft they'll receive a fee of US$70 million.

A statement from Ocean Infinity says due to the sensitive nature of the search, formal communications will come through the Malaysian government.

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