Malaysia pushes for new MH370 search, 10 years on
Malaysia is pushing for a renewed search for Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, the transport minister said on Sunday, as the 10th anniversary of its disappearance in one of the world's greatest aviation mysteries approaches. - REUTERS
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00:00 This week will mark a decade since Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 disappeared.
00:07 Family members of missing passengers were hopeful on Sunday
00:11 that a new search for the plane may finally shed light on one of the world's greatest aviation mysteries.
00:18 Malaysia's Transport Minister Anthony Lok says his government is pushing for a new attempt
00:24 to find the Boeing 777 which disappeared with 227 passengers and 12 crew on board
00:31 while travelling from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing in 2014.
00:35 As I've mentioned numerous times, as far as Malaysian government is concerned,
00:40 we are committed to that search and the search must go on.
00:43 At a remembrance event in the city of Subang Jaya,
00:47 Lok said Malaysia had invited the US seabed exploration company called Ocean Infinity
00:53 to discuss a new search proposal after two previous attempts to find the plane failed.
00:59 A two-year, $130 million underwater search by Malaysia, China and Australia came to an end in January 2017.
01:08 The following year, Malaysia had engaged Ocean Infinity for a search in the southern Indian Ocean
01:14 offering up to $70 million if the plane was found.
01:18 Over the years, debris, some confirmed and some believed to be from the aircraft,
01:23 have washed up on the shores of Africa and islands across the Indian Ocean,
01:29 some of which were on display at Sunday's remembrance.
01:32 VPR Northern, whose wife was on board, is hopeful the latest proposal will uncover something new.
01:39 There have been ships lost that are found after hundreds of years.
01:43 So we cannot say that this plane will never be found.
01:45 There are actually plans underway now to map the whole of the world's oceans.
01:49 So when they map the ocean floor, at some point in time they will find.
01:53 But whether it's in my lifetime, we cannot say.
01:55 Officials say once Malaysia's Cabinet approves Ocean Infinity's proposal,
02:01 it will talk to Australia about working together to resume the search.
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