Malaysia’s transport ministry has announced the search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 will resume on 30 December 2025. The Boeing 777 vanished from radar on 8 March 2014 during a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, carrying 239 passengers and crew, most of them Chinese nationals. The aircraft’s wreckage has never been located, and the disappearance remains one of aviation’s enduring mysteries.
Ocean exploration company Ocean Infinity will conduct the renewed deep-sea search. Operations are planned to run for 55 days, carried out intermittently. A prior attempt in April this year was halted because of poor weather and rough seas; that effort concentrated on a 15,000-square-kilometre area off the coast of Perth and was undertaken on a “no find, no fee” basis, meaning government payment would only be due if the aircraft was discovered.
The initial, government-led search—coordinated by Australia—covered roughly 120,000 square kilometres over three years before being suspended in 2017 by agreement between China, Malaysia and Australia. To date, only a few small pieces of debris believed to be from MH370 have been recovered.
Edited by: Zac Crellin