Malaysia open to proposals for reviving MH370 hunt five years on from the aircraft’s disappearance.
Residents of Boeung Kak Lake light candles to spell ‘MH370’ during a Buddhist prayer ceremony in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Picture: REUTERS
The Malaysia Airlines jet vanished in March 2014 with 239 people — mostly from China — on board, en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. No sign of it was found in a 120,000km² Indian Ocean search zone and the Australian-led hunt, the largest in aviation history, was suspended in January 2017. Hundreds of people, including some of the relatives of those on board, gathered at a Kuala Lumpur shopping mall on Sunday to mark the anniversary of the aircraft’s disappearance.
No new search is planned, but transport minister Anthony Loke said at the event that the government is open to hearing proposals to resume the hunt. “If there are any credible leads and any specific proposals, especially from Ocean Infinity, we are more than willing to look at it,” he said.
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