12 years after MH370 vanished, new search still finds nothing
What's the story
A renewed deep-sea search for the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 has not yielded any results. The Boeing 777 disappeared on March 8, 2014, with 239 people onboard. The latest search was conducted by marine robotics company Ocean Infinity in the southern Indian Ocean between March 2025 and January 2026.
Search contract
Ocean Infinity was contracted to search for 90 days
The search was conducted under a "no-find, no-fee" contract with Malaysia, covering a new 15,000-square-kilometer site where the plane is believed to have crashed. The Texas-based company would be paid $70 million if the wreckage is found. Despite covering about 7,571 square kilometers of seabed in two phases totaling 28 days—March 25-28 last year and December 31 to January 23 this year—the search yielded no confirmed findings.
Previous searches
Flight MH370 disappeared on March 8, 2014
The Boeing 777 vanished from radar shortly after taking off from Kuala Lumpur for Beijing. Satellite data indicated the plane deviated from its flight path and headed south into the far-southern Indian Ocean, where it is believed to have crashed. A previous multinational search effort also failed to locate any clues, although some debris washed ashore on the east African coast and Indian Ocean islands.
Family appeal
Families of victims urge government to extend search contract
The group Voice 370, which represents the families of some passengers aboard MH370, has urged the government to extend Ocean Infinity's contract. They also want similar arrangements with other deep-sea exploration companies. Despite Ocean Infinity's contract running until June, the group's representatives said that weather conditions and vessel redeployment could delay further searches.