The search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 will resume on 30 December 2025, refocusing maritime attention on the southern Indian Ocean more than a decade after the aircraft disappeared with 239 people on board.
Malaysia’s Transport Ministry confirmed that Ocean Infinity, a UK- and US-based marine robotics firm, will lead a new deep-sea seabed search targeting a 15,000-square-kilometre area identified through updated oceanographic and drift analysis. Operations will be carried out intermittently over 55 days, subject to weather conditions in the notoriously rough Indian Ocean.
The company is operating under a “no find, no fee” contract, under which it will be paid US$70 million only if wreckage is discovered.
MH370 vanished from radar on 8 March 2014 while flying from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. Previous multinational maritime searches, led by Australia, covered more than 46,000 square miles of the Indian Ocean seabed before ending in 2017, while a separate Ocean Infinity effort in 2018 also proved unsuccessful.
Although the wreckage remains undiscovered, confirmed debris has washed up along the African coast and Indian Ocean islands, guiding the latest seabed search strategy and renewing hopes for answers in one of aviation and maritime history’s greatest mysteries.
