New Deep-Sea Drone Search Begins for Missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370

The renewed search deploys deep-sea drones under a ‘no find, no fee’ agreement to locate MH370’s wreckage.

A flight officer scans the water in the southern Indian Ocean during a search for the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, on March 22, 2014. Rob Griffith/AP Photo

A renewed deep-sea search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 began this week in the southern Indian Ocean, reviving hopes of solving aviation’s most enduring mystery more than a decade after the aircraft vanished with 239 people on board.

Malaysia’s Transport Ministry said on Dec. 31 that a search vessel, identified as the Armada 86 05, had arrived at a designated search area carrying two autonomous underwater vehicles capable of scanning vast stretches of seabed at extreme depths. The precise coordinates of the search zone were not disclosed.