Search back on for missing flight MH370

Hope for loves ones of those on board flight MH370 have been rekindled as US-based company Ocean Infinity resumed the search for the missing plane.

The search for MH370 has resumed after a research ship left South Africa, bound for a search area off the coast of Perth.

The Malaysian Government has enlisted US seabed exploration company Ocean Infinity, which chartered Norwegian ship Seabed Constructor, due to arrive in Perth on February 7 after it set sail from Port Durban on Tuesday.

The Malaysian Airlines flight disappeared on March 8 2014, en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, with 239 people on board, sparking the largest search in aviation history.