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Malaysia's transport ministry said Wednesday that the deep-sea hunt for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 will resume Dec. 30, renewing hopes of finally locating the jet that vanished without a trace more than a decade ago.

The Boeing 777 plane disappeared from radar shortly after taking off on March 8, 2014, carrying 239 people, mostly Chinese nationals, on a flight from Malaysia's capital, Kuala Lumpur, to Beijing. Satellite data showed the plane turned from its flight path and headed south to the far-southern Indian Ocean, where it is believed to have crashed.

The transport ministry said in a statement that U.S.-based marine robotics firm Ocean Infinity will search intermittently from Dec. 30 for a total of 55 days, in targeted areas believed to have the highest likelihood of finding the missing aircraft.

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[–] Paragone@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

This is an incompetent waste-of-resources, worse than pointless.

That flight's pilot had rehearsed turning once outside of land-radar, to prevent the crash-site from being discovered,

flying over the sea,

& then slamming into the sea,

on his home flight-sim, I've read.

Why bother pouring another few $million into pretending that the aircraft "went missing", when it was intentionally destroyed by the pilot?

I don't know what motivated his mass-murdercide ( "murdercide" term coined by New Scientist, for suicide-bombers ), but we need to stop pouring our finite-resources into pointless idiocies,

when there are such great needs for the living, here & now.

( XOR we're pushing ourselves closer to a species-wide DarwinAward, this-century,

which may be what the real aim is..

obliterate our viability, then pretend that we're "not responsible" for our non-survival, right?

Bah.

Make all such wasting-of-resources be paid-for by volunteer-financers, & then maybe there'd be moral-basis for it.

But when general taxpayer basis is either paying-for, or subsidizing, idiotic wasting-of-opportunity, then it's abuse/wrong. )


Sorry for being bitter,

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