Private company launches search for Malaysia’s Flight MH370 in ’final effort’

L’affaire est faite, les détails vont suivre.

U.S. firm ’gets go-ahead’ to try to solve one of world’s greatest aviation mysteries
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Malaysia will allow a U.S.-based exploration firm to resume the search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, an airline support group told families of the victims on Friday, in a bid to solve one of the world’s greatest aviation mysteries.

Malaysia to pay U.S. firm up to $70 million if it finds missing #MH370
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Malaysia signed a deal on Wednesday to pay a U.S. seabed exploration firm up to $70 million if it finds the missing Malaysia Airlines aircraft MH370 within 90 days of embarking on a new search in the Southern Indian ocean.
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Malaysian Transport Minister Liow Tiong Lai said a Houston-based private firm, Ocean Infinity, would search for MH370 in that 25,000-sq-km priority area on a “no-cure, no-fee” basis, meaning it will only get paid if it finds the plane.

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Private company launches search for Malaysia’s Flight MH370 in ’final effort’
▻https://www.reuters.com/article/us-malaysia-airlines-mh370/ship-hired-to-find-mh370-arrives-in-search-zone-idUSKBN1FC0RS

Ocean Infinity’s vessel carries eight “autonomous underwater vehicles”, or submersible craft, that will scour the seabed with scanning equipment for information to be sent back for analysis.

The Seabed Constructor began its search on Monday [Jan 22, 2018], Malaysia’s Department of Civil Aviation said in a statement.