MH370: Will aviation's biggest mystery finally be solved?

DW (English)

More than a decade after Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 vanished with 239 people on board, the search to locate the main wreckage is being resumed. DW speaks to an expert and a relative of an MH370 passenger.

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00:00MH370 the world's biggest aviation mystery nearly 12 years ago Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 took

00:09off from Kuala Lumpur on route to Beijing China less than an hour after takeoff it veered off

00:15course the plane with 239 people on board vanished where is the plane why did it disappear KS Narendran's

00:24wife Chandrika Sharma was one of the MH370 passengers so the questions have remained the efforts to search

00:31have been you know in lurches and frits and bursts small pieces of the plane have washed up but no

00:37main wreckage has ever been found the search resumed on December 30th 2025 the Malaysian

00:42transport ministry said the latest development underscores the government of Malaysia's

00:46commitment in providing closure to the families affected by this tragedy so we were left with

00:51no options no quite no answers and only a number of questions that have lingered from the very start

00:58the latest search began in March 2025 but was suspended shortly after because of poor weather

01:04conditions marine robotics firm ocean infinity is again leading the search under a no find no fee

01:10deal if the wreckage is found the company will receive 70 million dollars but ocean infinity wasn't

01:16able to find the missing plane in the last search in 2018 so what's different this time technology

01:22has moved on leaps and bounds in recent years Richard Godfrey is a retired British aerospace engineer and

01:29independent researcher into MH370's disappearance ocean infinity have invested lots of money in the latest

01:36ships and the latest technology both in AUVs the autonomous underwater vehicles and the ROVs the remotely operated

01:49of underwater vehicles the new mission is set the last 55 search days from December to May the search is

01:58expected to focus on an area of about 15,000 square kilometers or nearly 5,800 square miles off the coast of Perth in

02:05Western Australia we have to see exactly where they go they originally said they would concentrate

02:13on an area between 33 degrees south and 36 degrees south that covers the majority of the experts so-called

02:25hot spots so why has it been so hard to find the wreckage of MH370 even in this narrower search area the seabed

02:33floor in the Indian Ocean is not a simple sandy seafloor there are mountains and volcanoes and canyons and it is a very

02:45difficult place to search for years the relatives of the MH370 passengers have been calling for the

02:52search to be continued we are still living under the shadow of an unsafe act a plane just disappeared

03:00if it's happened once who knows it might happen again and I think it's extremely important that

03:07the search yields at least some insight some input in terms of how we might avoid a recurrence given the

03:14scale and complexity of the undersea landscape there are questions about whether the search will be

03:18successful this time after so many years it depends exactly where they do go but it's at least 50 50 that

03:26they'll be successful and if they do cover all of the hot spots from various experts then I think it's

03:34probably up to 90 percent locating the airplanes black box will be key to providing answers there's

03:40lots of information that will help build a picture of exactly what happened and maybe when we have that

03:48information we can then narrow down and answer those questions who and why there is a question of justice

03:58there is a question of fairness you know to the families and to the traveling public you can't just let

04:03a passenger aircraft just disappear

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