KUALA LUMPUR: The search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 will resume at the end of December, Malaysia&#39;s transport ministry said on Wednesday, more than a decade after the plane disappeared.&nbsp;The Boeing 777 carrying 239 people vanished from radar screens on March 8, 2014, while en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing in one of aviation&#39;s greatest enduring mysteries.&nbsp;Two-thirds of the passengers were Chinese, while the others included Malaysians, Indonesians and Australians, as well as Indian, American, Dutch and French nationals.&nbsp;Despite the largest search in aviation history, the plane has not been found.&nbsp;Kuala Lumpur said in a statement it &quot;wishes to update that the deep-sea search for (the) missing wreckage of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 will be resuming on 30 December 2025.&quot;&nbsp;Maritime exploration firm Ocean Infinity will be conducting the search &quot;in (a) targeted area assessed to have the highest probability of locating the aircraft,&quot; the ministry said.&nbsp;The latest search in the southern Indian Ocean was suspended in April as it was &quot;not the season.&quot;&nbsp;It was conducted on the &quot;no find, no fee&quot; principle as Ocean Infinity&#39;s previous search, with the government only paying out if the firm finds the aircraft.&nbsp;Ocean Infinity, based in Britain and the United States, led an unsuccessful hunt in 2018, before agreeing to launch a new search this year.&nbsp;An initial Australia-led search covered 120,000 square kilometers (46,300 square miles) in the Indian Ocean over three years but found hardly any trace of the plane other than a few pieces of debris.&nbsp;The ministry said the latest development underscores its commitment in &quot;providing closure to the families affected by the tragedy.&quot;&nbsp;Relatives of the victims had voiced hope in February that a new search could finally bring some answers.&nbsp;When contacted by AFP, relatives of victims were not immediately available for comment.&nbsp;Aviation mysteryThe plane&#39;s disappearance has long been the subject of theories &mdash; ranging from the credible to outlandish &mdash; including that veteran pilot Zaharie Ahmad Shah had gone rogue.&nbsp;A final report into the tragedy released in 2018 pointed to failings by air traffic control and said the course of the plane was changed manually.&nbsp;Investigators said in the 495-page report that they still did not know why the plane vanished and refused to rule out that someone other than the pilots had diverted the jet.&nbsp;Relatives of passengers lost on the flight have continued to demand answers from Malaysian authorities.&nbsp;Family members of Chinese passengers gathered in Beijing outside government offices and the Malaysian embassy in March on the 11th anniversary of the flight&#39;s disappearance.&nbsp;Attendees of the gathering shouted, &quot;Give us back our loved ones,&quot; with some holding placards asking, &quot;When will the 11 years of waiting and torment end?&quot;

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The search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 will resume at the end of December, more than a decade after the plane disappeared.

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Malaysia says search for long-missing flight MH370 to resume