Search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 resumes after 11 years

London: Malaysian transport minister Anthony Loke said on Tuesday that a new search operation for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 has started more than a decade after the plane vanished, The Guardian reported.

Maritime exploration firm Ocean Infinity has resumed the search for the flight that went missing in March 2014.

Anthony Loke reportedly welcomed ‘the proactiveness of Ocean Infinity to deploy their ships’ to hunt for the flight.

The minister however did not give details including when the British firm started the search and how long it would last.

MH370 has become an enduring mystery upon disappearing from radar shortly after taking off from Kuala Lumpur with 12 crew and 227 passengers bound for Beijing.

Grace Nathan, 36-year-old Malaysian, who lost her mother traveling on the flight, told news agency AFP that ‘We’re very relieved and pleased that the search is resuming once again after such a long hiatus.’

MH370 flight supervisor Patrick Gomes’s wife Jaquita Gonzales, 62, hoped that the search would lead to ‘much-needed closure’ to the mystery, adding that ‘Memories come back like yesterday, it’s fresh in our heads.’

The plane was heading west over the Strait of Malacca when it was last seen on military radar at 2.14 am.

Half an hour after this, the airlines said it had lost contact with the flight close to four hours before it was due to land about 6.30 am at its destination.

The families of those traveling on the doomed flight are mournfully waiting for answers what happened to the flight.

Some of them went to Madagascar in 2016 searching for debris on the beaches there as pieces of the plane were found off the Tanzanian and Mozambican coasts.

After searching 120,000 sq km in the Southern Indian Ocean in three years, Australia ended the operations in January 2017 calling the inability to locate the flight ‘great tragedy’ and ‘almost inconceivable’ in the modern age.