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The Malaysian government has agreed to resume the search for a passenger plane that disappeared a decade ago, one of the greatest mysteries in aviation history.
Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 disappeared in March 2014 while en route to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur with 239 people on board.
Efforts to find the remains of the Boeing 777 have been ongoing for years, and hundreds of families of those on board have been left with unanswered questions.
On Friday, Malaysian Transport Minister Anthony Loke said the cabinet had approved a $70 million contract for US marine survey company Ocean Infinity to search for the plane.
Under the “no find, no pay” contract, Ocean Infinity will only be paid when the wreckage of the plane is found.
The 2018 search for Ocean Infinity under similar conditions ended unsuccessfully after three months of searching.
The international effort, which cost US$150 million, ended in 2017 after two years of searching.
The new search will cover an area of 15,000 square kilometers in the southern Indian Ocean.
Flight MH370 took off from Kuala Lumpur in the early hours of March 8, 2014. It lost contact less than an hour after takeoff and radar showed it had deviated from its planned flight path.
Investigators generally agree the plane crashed somewhere in the southern Indian Ocean – although it is unclear why it crashed.
