MH370: Search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight resumes, reviving hope of answers delayed for a decade

The search for the wreckage of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 is set to resume Tuesday, more than a decade after the plane went missing with 239 people onboard in one of the world’s greatest aviation mysteries.

BEIJING — The search for the wreckage of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 was set to resume Tuesday, more than a decade after the plane went missing with 239 people on board in one of the world’s greatest aviation mysteries.

The U.S. marine robotics company Ocean Infinity will conduct seabed search operations intermittently for 55 days as part of its agreement with the Malaysian government, the country’s Ministry of Transport said in a statement this month.

The company will use underwater vehicles, deep sea drones and advanced scanning technology across a 6,000-square-mile swath of the Indian Ocean seabed.

It is unclear whether Ocean Infinity has new evidence of the location of the plane, a Boeing 777 that vanished from air traffic radar on March 8, 2014, less than an hour after departing for Beijing from the Malaysian capital, Kuala Lumpur, carrying 239 passengers and crew.

Two-thirds of the missing passengers were Chinese, with Malaysians and Americans among the other nationalities on board.