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Malaysia to Resume MH370 Search in Indian Ocean

Is the MH370 search a wasteful expense with diminishing returns, or an essential commitment to the families of those missing?

Published DEC 3 2025

Malaysia to Resume MH370 Search in Indian Ocean

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Above: Visitors attending the Day of Remembrance for MH370 in Petaling Jaya, Malaysia, on March 3, 2024. Image credit: Supian Ahmad/NurPhoto/Getty Images

The Facts

The Malaysian Ministry of Transport announced on Wednesday that the government has agreed to resume the search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 later this month, over a decade since the aircraft vanished.
Malaysian Ministry of Transport
Daily Mail
Al Jazeera
MH370, a Boeing 777 aircraft, disappeared on March 8, 2014, after leaving Malaysian airspace while travelling from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, along with its complement of 227 passengers and 12 crew.
FOX News
ABC Australia
In a press release, the transport ministry stated that the search for the missing aircraft would resume on Dec. 30, 2025, and target an area with the "highest probability of locating the aircraft" for a period of 55 days.
Malaysian Ministry of Transport
The U.S. robotics company Ocean Infinity will assist the search operation, scanning the seabed "intermittently" for signs of the plane, following an agreement ratified between the two parties in March.
Malaysian Ministry of Transport
Malaysian Ministry of Transport
Sky News
As part of the arrangement, Ocean Infinity will operate under a "no find, no fee" clause, which means that the contract’s $70 million reward will only be paid to the company if it is successful in locating the remnants of MH370.
Malaysian Ministry of Transport
Malaysian Ministry of Transport
Ocean Infinity previously conducted a three-month search for the missing plane in 2018, following the conclusion of a large multinational operation in 2017 that involved 60 ships and 50 aircraft from 26 different countries.
Express.co.uk
BBC News

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The Spin

Narrative A

Resuming the search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 a decade after the aircraft went missing is a wasteful expense, which offers only diminishing returns following previous searches. It would be better if the government reallocated the resources invested in this endeavor toward enhancing safety features to prevent such a tragedy from ever occurring again.

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Narrative B

The Malaysian government's resumption of the search for MH370 is by no means frivolous, but rather in keeping with its commitment to provide closure for those families affected by the aircraft's disappearance. For this reason, the government has once again partnered with Ocean Infinity to ascertain the truth of what happened that fateful day.