New search under way for Malaysia flight 370, 11 years after it vanished

A new search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 has been launched more than a decade after the plane went missing in one of aviation's greatest enduring mysteries.

- Helen Sullivan

The maritime exploration firm Ocean Infinity has resumed the hunt for the missing plane, the Malaysian transport minister, Anthony Loke, said on Tuesday.

Loke said the contract details between Malaysia and the firm were still being finalised but he welcomed “the proactiveness of Ocean Infinity to deploy their ships” to begin the search for the plane, which went missing on 8 March 2014.

MH370 disappeared from radar screens shortly after taking off from Kuala Lumpur airport. It was bound for Beijing, China, with 12 crew members and 227 passengers onboard. The plane has never been found, and the reason for its disappearance is still unknown.

“We're very relieved and pleased that the search is resuming once again after such a long hiatus,” Grace Nathan, 36, who lost her mother on the doomed jet, told Agence France-Presse.