Malaysia approves new search for plane missing for more than a decade

Jiang Hui, whose mother was on the missing MH370 Malaysia Airlines passenger jet, wears a shirt saying Remembering 239 Lives, MH370 as he talks to media on the 11th anniversary of the jet going missing in Beijing. Picture: Ng Han Guan/AP

Malaysia’s government has given final approval for a Texas-based marine robotics company to renew the search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which is believed to have crashed in the southern Indian Ocean more than a decade ago.

Cabinet ministers agreed to terms and conditions for a “no-find, no-fee” contract with Texas-based Ocean Infinity to resume the seabed search operation at a new 5,800-square-mile site in the ocean, transport minister Anthony Loke said in a statement on Wednesday.