The ongoing quest to find Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 has once again been halted, this time for weather-related reasons, Malaysia's transport minister announced. Anthony Loke told AFP: "They have stopped the operation for the time being, they will resume the search at the end of this year. Right now, it's not the season."
The vanishing of flight MH370 - a Boeing 777 with 227 passengers and 12 crew on board - while on its journey from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing happened over a decade ago, in 2014. An Australia-coordinated expedition initially spanned over three years and scoured 46,300 square miles of ocean territory, with little evidence of the airliner's whereabouts, except for some scattered debris. In 2018, the maritime exploration firm Ocean Infinity, operating from the UK and the US, resumed the search but to no avail.
Parts of the plane have washed up on beaches. (Image: Getty)
However, the 495-page document did not provide a definitive explanation for the plane's disappearance and did not rule out the possibility that someone other than the pilots had diverted the aircraft.
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The families of the missing passengers have continued to press Malaysian authorities for answers. The majority of the passengers were Chinese, with others hailing from Malaysia, Indonesia, Australia, and other countries.
Recently, on the 11th anniversary of the flight's disappearance, relatives of Chinese passengers gathered in Beijing outside government offices and the Malaysian embassy.
The crowd chanted, "Give us back our loved ones!" and held placards that read, "When will the 11 years of waiting and torment end?".
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