Last year, there was an encouraging development about the search resuming for MH370, Malaysia Airlines’ Boeing 777 that went missing in 2014. With yesterday being the 12th anniversary of the disappearance of MH370, there’s a sad update, which is that the search didn’t turn up any new findings. Let’s cover the details…
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This is less about the actual incident and more about a contract dispute between the Malaysian government and one of the entities searching for the wreckage (Ocean Infinity). It often does come down to resources (cost, time, results). After a decade with limited results, this search becomes a 'gravy train' for this 'start-up' that claims to "leverage software, AI, data, and robotics expertise to deliver high-impact solutions that address real-world challenges across industries"... feels a little scam-y, no?
End of the day, pilot suicide/mass murder is the only solution that makes sense to me.
"solution"? I think you mean "likely cause" but maybe that's a translation/word-choice issue.
Yes XenaWP. under a $70 million 'no find, no fee' agreement with the Malaysian government.
Also 1990, Ocean Infinity is a company with real products and pedigree in its arm so I don’t know where you are getting that evaluation of yours
@Ben - for once I disagree with you:
- "While small parts of the plane’s wreckage have been found, a vast majority of the plane remains unaccounted for" - as I understood the traceability of such small parts is heavily questionnable (biological studies on such parts do not match with the time such parts are supposed to have stayed in the Ocean + there is no clear link with the exact aircraft which disappeared) - all we know for sure is that these parts come from a B777
- "The captain used his home simulator to plot out a flight into the Indian Ocean" - as I understood, he used his simulator to land on Diego Garcia. We might find it wild, but many captains have a home simulator and would test it on wild routes.
- I'm having very hard times believing the so-called evidence that the aircraft was re-routed to the Indian Ocean. As an example, we're told the First Officer's mobile phone triggered a phone antenna in Penang. And we're supposed to accept than none of the other 238 phones on board did?
Eve, I see that Malaysia, Australia, and China funded the initial search, which cost approximately A$200 million, none of which involved Ocean Infinity. Got it.
I read that Ocean Infinity tried before in 2018, and this recent attempt, December 2025-January 2026, that they have 65 crew and 8 autonomous vehicles, and that they're underlying business in oil and gas. "The company's shareholders would bear the upfront costs of the search." It's a private held company, so I guess they ate the cost in Austin/Southampton.
Perhaps, the oil and gas business is profitable enough that they were willing to do this 'charity,' or there were ulterior motives, like, searching for oil and gas, and potentially getting up to $70 million, if they happened to find debris in the process.
Sad for the families who won't have the closure they deserve but at least the government tried, unlike the investigators involved in Air India 171 who will try to sweep this pilot murder/suicide under the rug for the next 12 years.
India's Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau is supposed to release a final report on AI717 soon. I'm gonna go out on a limb here and predict that if you don't like what they have to say on that, you'll attempt to discredit the entity, the airline, the country, random people with that descent, etc., because, well... *points to your chosen alias*
Well it's a mystery, and that would be the solution. But yes, perhaps not my best word choice
LOL. Why not Vanuatu? No, it must be Togo! Reparations for theft of their prized bronzes!
Other than the Black Boxes, I honestly don't understand what they expect to find. That plane likely smashed into a million pieces on impact, with currents carrying them away for more than a decade.
@1990, I rarely comment and I respect your right to comment, but this is one of most delusional comments I've seen. Just sayin...
why would that be delusional? It is a well speculated hypothesis that the "search" for MH370 allowed a large patch of potentially valuable seafloor to be perfectly mapped.