US robots to hunt Malaysia’s mysterious missing flight after 11 years

Malaysia is set to relaunch the search for Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 on December 30, marking a significant development in the decade-old mystery of the missing plane. The flight disappeared on March 8, 2014, en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people aboard, vanishing from radar and later being tracked diverting into the remote southern Indian Ocean. Despite extensive multinational search efforts, the main wreckage has never been found. The Malaysian government has now authorized a new deep-sea mission led by US company Ocean Infinity, which will deploy advanced marine robotics to scan a 5,800-square-mile zone identified through refined drift and debris analysis. Ocean Infinity’s 55-day operation will utilize cutting-edge seabed mapping and object detection technologies to improve the precision of the search compared to previous efforts. The company will operate under a “no-find, no-fee” contract, receiving payment only if the wreckage is located. This renewed search targets an area informed by updated modeling of