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Relatives of MH370 victims have welcomed renewed search efforts, with families hopeful the operation will provide answers and some peace.

The mission concentrates on the most promising areas and will proceed with interruptions only if necessary to complete the search.

AUVs carry magnetometers to detect metal beneath sediment, a critical tool in locating any aircraft debris on the ocean floor.

MH370’s main fuselage, cockpit voice recorder, and flight data recorder have never been found, though some debris has washed ashore over the years, including items from Réunion Island.

MH370 disappeared on March 8, 2014, transporting 239 people from multiple nations on a Kuala Lumpur–Beijing flight that deviated from its course and has remained missing since.

Ocean Infinity, a UK-US seabed surveying firm, resumes its 55‑day search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 in the Indian Ocean under a $70 million no‑find, no‑fee contract with the Malaysian government, targeting a high‑probability area off western Australia.

The operation uses autonomous underwater vehicles equipped with magnetometers to map the seafloor and detect buried wreckage over a 15,000 square‑kilometer priority zone, following weather-related pauses.

The latest expedition began on December 30, 2025, after prior searches by Ocean Infinity in 2018 and a February–April effort suspended by bad weather, expanding the search to cover roughly 5,800 square miles (15,000 square kilometers) of seabed.

Experts acknowledge a major challenge: the risk of never finding the wreck or alternatively getting very close but missing it due to complex seabed terrain and gaps in survey data.

Only a handful of wreckage pieces have appeared since 2015; no definitive wreckage has been recovered to date.

An official 2018 Malaysian report suggested possible unlawful interference and indicated the aircraft may have been manually turned around midflight, while discounting theories of suicide or malfunction.