Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, a Boeing 777 carrying 239 people from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, vanished from radar on March 8, 2014. Satellite data suggests it turned south and ended up in the remote southern Indian Ocean. Debris has washed up on the east African coast and Indian Ocean islands, but the main wreckage has never been found despite a huge multinational search and a 2018 private one.

In 2025, Malaysia approved a new attempt by Ocean Infinity, a Texas-based marine robotics company, under a no-find, no-fee contract. The company would be paid $70 million only if it found the wreckage. It targeted a new 15,000-square-kilometer area and searched in two phases, in late March 2025 and from Dec. 31, 2025, to Jan. 23, 2026, covering about 7,571 square kilometers of seabed between weather interruptions.

On March 8, 2026, the 12th anniversary, Malaysia’s Air Accident Investigation Bureau announced that the search had found no wreckage and gave no date for it to resume. The contract runs until June, but Ocean Infinity’s ship has been reassigned, and the company said it was unlikely to return soon with the southern winter coming. It said it remains committed to the hunt.

Voice 370, a group representing some passengers’ families, urged the government to extend the contract and sign similar deals with other companies, pointing out that the government pays nothing unless the plane is found.