Search resumes to solve mystery of missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370

Search resumes to solve mystery of missing Malaysia-airlines" class="entity-link entity-organization" data-entity-id="1518" data-entity-type="organization">Malaysia Airlines flight MH370New search to start on December 30 for Boeing 777 that went missing in 2014 with 227 passengers and 12 crew members.Published On 3 Dec 2025Efforts to solve one of the world’s greatest aviation mysteries will resume later this month when the search continues for missing Malaysia-airlines" class="entity-link entity-organization" data-entity-id="1518" data-entity-type="organization">Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, the country’s Ministry of Transport said.The aircraft, a Boeing 777, was carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew when it vanished from radars shortly after takeoff on March 8, 2014 from Malaysia’s capital Kuala Lumpur en route to Beijing, China.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemslist 1 of 4Ten years after MH370 disappeared, what do we know?list 2 of 4Malaysia to resume search for missing MH370list 3 of 4Malaysia greenlights new search for missing flight MH370list 4 of 4Malaysia suspends search for long-missing flight MH370end of list“The search will focus on targeted areas assessed to have the highest probability of locating the aircraft,” the Transport Ministry said in a statement on Wednesday.The ministry said the renewed search effort “underscores the Government of Malaysia’s commitment to providing closure to the families affected by the tragedy”, according to the official Bernama news agency.Two-thirds of passengers on the ill-fated flight were Chinese, while the others were from Malaysia, Indonesia, Australia, and elsewhere.Flight investigators said in a 495-page report into the disappearance that they did not know why the plane had vanished and refused to rule out the possibility that someone other than the pilots had diverted the jet from its scheduled route.Satellite data showed the plane diverted from its flight path and headed south, to the far-southern Indian Ocean, where it is believed to have run out of fuel and crashed.Initially, an Australia-led search operation scoured 120,000sq km (46,300sq miles) of ocean over three years, but only some pieces of possible debris were found along the coastlines in East African and Indian Ocean countries, including Mozambique, Madagascar and Reunion Island.