Company Offers Search for Disappeared Flight 370, Victims’ Families Urge Government to Agree

Company Offers Search for Disappeared Flight 370, Victims’ Families Urge Government to Agree
A man walks pasts a mural representing the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 at an alley in Shah Alam, on the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur on Aug. 26, 2015. MOHD RASFAN/AFP/Getty Images
Petr Svab
Petr Svab
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An American ocean exploration company, Ocean Infinity, has offered to search for the disappeared Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 after the official search was suspended in January.

The company would only get paid if it finds remnants of the Boeing 777 aircraft, according to Voice370, the association of families of the flight crew and passengers.

Flight 370 disappeared on March 8, 2014, flying from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. Contact was lost with the plane over the South China Sea. It is believed the plane turned around and headed west and then south, crashing into the Indian Ocean.

Malaysia (where the craft was from), China (which had the most passengers onboard), and Australia (the area of responsibility the plane is believed to have crashed) spent over $100 million searching some 46,000 square miles of ocean to no avail. A few pieces of debris were found near or on shores of Réunion island in 2015 and Africa in 2016.

Joao de Abreu, president of Mozambique's Civil Aviation Institute (IACM), holds a piece of suspected aircraft wreckage of Flight 370 found off the east African coast in Maputo on March 3, 2016. (Adrien Barbier/AFP/Getty Images)
Joao de Abreu, president of Mozambique's Civil Aviation Institute (IACM), holds a piece of suspected aircraft wreckage of Flight 370 found off the east African coast in Maputo on March 3, 2016. Adrien Barbier/AFP/Getty Images
Petr Svab
Petr Svab
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Petr Svab is a reporter covering New York. Previously, he covered national topics including politics, economy, education, and law enforcement.
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