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.
The vessel prepared for deployment at Fremantle Port in Western Australia before heading into the Indian Ocean. While the Malaysian government did not formally name the contractor in its statement, the craft number cited by Malaysia’s Transport Ministry—Armada 86 05—identifies the ship as belonging to Ocean Infinity, a Texas-based marine robotics company that previously led an unsuccessful search for the missing plane in 2018….
New Deep-Sea Drone Search Begins for Missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370
