A new search for the wreckage of Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 has been given the green light more than ten years after it went missing.
The Malaysian Government has agreed for exploration firm Ocean Infinity to search a section of the southern Indian Ocean on a no win no fee basis.
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The search area is about 15 thousand square kilometres in size.
If they find the wreckage the team will receive about $115 million Australian.
Flight MH370 and 239 passengers on board, including six Australians, vanished while flying from Kuala Lumpar to Beijing in 2014.
Despite extensive efforts since it’s never been found, only pieces that have washed up on surrounding shores.
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The Briefing host Tara Cassidy said it remains one of the biggest aviation mysteries in the world.
“Which is just devastating for the families of the people that were onboard that in all that time it’s still not been found. And we still don’t know what happened, there’s no closure for them,” Cassidy said.
“Until we do it’s unlikely we’ll ever learn the truth about what actually caused the crash”
There have been many conspiracy theories about what took place, and media outlets have covered the case ever since.
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