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[Regnum] The search for the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200 that went missing in 2014, flight MH370 from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, has resumed in the Indian Ocean off the west coast of Australia. This was reported on February 25 by the 9News TV channel.
“Today, a new search for the long-missing MH370 will begin in the Indian Ocean, more than ten years after the passenger plane disappeared… The new search is much more targeted and precise than the previous ones, which covered about 200,000 square kilometers,” the journalists specified.
The work is complicated by the topography of the ocean floor at depths of several kilometers, including underwater rocks and volcanoes.
The UK-based US company Ocean Infinity has signed a contract with the Malaysian government to explore about 15,000 square kilometres of ocean approximately 1,500 kilometres off the coast of Perth.
As reported by Regnum News Agency, the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200 took off from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on the night of March 8, 2014, and disappeared from radars about two hours later. There were 227 passengers and 12 crew members on board. What happened to the plane is unknown. Repeated attempts to find the wreckage of the missing plane, in which China and Australia took part, were unsuccessful and were abandoned. In January 2015, Malaysian authorities declared the plane a disaster and all people dead.
According to one version, the plane disappeared over the Andaman Sea and crashed in the southern Indian Ocean, 1,500 miles southwest of Australia. Former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott, citing senior Malaysian government officials, claimed that the plane crashed due to the suicide of the crew commander, Zachariah Ahmad Shah.
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