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Calculated Shard: 143 (from laksa176)

2. Crawled Status Check

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curl -X POST \
  'http://laksa143.int.ahrefs:8124/' \
  -H 'Content-Type: text/plain' \
  -H 'X-ClickHouse-Database: crawler3' \
  -H 'Authorization: Basic YXBpOg==' \
  -d 'SELECT getAhrefsURLFromUnparsed(src_unparsed) AS found_url, ifNull(toUnixTimestamp(download_stamp), 0) AS crawl_time, ifNull(toUnixTimestamp(props_url_first_seen), 0) AS first_indexed_time, download_http_code AS http_code, src_unparsed AS src_unparsed, src_root_hash AS src_root_hash, history_drop_reason AS history_drop_reason, meta_title AS meta_title, meta_descriptions AS meta_descriptions, attrs_boilerpipe_text AS attrs_boilerpipe_text, attrs_markdown AS attrs_markdown, attrs_readable_markdown AS attrs_readable_markdown, meta_canonical AS meta_canonical FROM crawler3.page_info_local FINAL PREWHERE (src_root_hash, src_unparsed) IN ((getAhrefsRootHashFromUnparsed(getAhrefsUnparsedNoserviceFromURL(\'https://www.cbsnews.com/news/flight-mh370-malaysia-plane-crash-search-indian-ocean-resume-december/\')), getAhrefsUnparsedNoserviceFromURL(\'https://www.cbsnews.com/news/flight-mh370-malaysia-plane-crash-search-indian-ocean-resume-december/\'))) FORMAT JSONEachRow'

Response:

{"found_url":"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/flight-mh370-malaysia-plane-crash-search-indian-ocean-resume-december\/","crawl_time":1775910348,"first_indexed_time":1764765878,"http_code":200,"src_unparsed":"com,cbsnews!www,\/news\/flight-mh370-malaysia-plane-crash-search-indian-ocean-resume-december\/ s443","src_root_hash":"10008871826360721943","history_drop_reason":null,"meta_title":"Malaysia says search for MH370 to resume this month, 11 years after packed plane vanished without a trace - CBS News","meta_descriptions":["11 years after Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 vanished without a trace, a U.S. firm is to resume its hunt for the Boeing 777 in the Indian Ocean."],"attrs_boilerpipe_text":"Updated on:  December 3, 2025 \/ 8:01 AM EST\n\/ CBS\/AP\nAdd CBS News on Google\nKuala Lumpur, Malaysia \n— Malaysia's government said Wednesday that American marine robotics company Ocean Infinity would soon resume the seabed search for\nMalaysia Airlines Flight 370\n, more than a decade after the plane vanished over the Indian Ocean.\nMH370, a Boeing 777, disappeared from air-traffic radar 39 minutes after departing from Kuala Lumpur enroute to Beijing, China, on March 8, 2014. The packed passenger jet's disappearance without a trace sparked one of aviation's most baffling mysteries.\nDespite years of multinational searches, investigators still do not know exactly what happened to the plane or its 239 passengers and crew.\nThe Malaysian government said Wednesday that Ocean Infinity would resume its search from Dec. 30, about eight months after the last effort was abandoned. Malaysia's transport minister\nannounced in early April\nthat a roughly\nsix-week search\nby the U.S. firm was ending, saying it wasn't \"the season\" for the work at sea. The minister said at the time that efforts would resume around the end of the year.\nA map shows the main locations relating to the 2014 disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.\nJohn SAEKI and Nicholas SHEARMAN\/AFP via Getty\nThe government said Wednesday that Ocean Infinity would resume searching intermittently from Dec. 30 for a total of 55 days, in targeted areas believed to have the highest likelihood of finding the missing aircraft.\nHerculean search efforts in the southern Indian Ocean, where the jet is believed to have gone down, have thus far turned up virtually nothing. Apart from a few small fragments that washed ashore, no bodies or large wreckage have ever been recovered.\nBelow is a look at what we know about the deadly aviation tragedy.\n\"Good night, Malaysian Three Seven Zero\"\nThe pilot's last radio call to Kuala Lumpur — a simple, \"Good night, Malaysian Three Seven Zero\" — was the final communication before the plane crossed into Vietnamese airspace. It never checked in with controllers there.\nMinutes later, the plane's transponder, which broadcasts its location, shut down. Military radar showed the jet turn back over the Andaman Sea, and satellite data suggested it continued flying for hours, possibly until fuel exhaustion, before crashing into a remote section of the southern Indian Ocean.\nTheories about what happened range from hijacking to cabin depressurization or power failure. There was no distress call, ransom demand, evidence of technical failure or severe weather.\nMalaysian investigators in 2018 cleared the passengers and crew but did not rule out \"unlawful interference.\" Authorities have said someone deliberately severed communications and diverted the plane.\nWho was on MH370 when it vanished?\nMH370 carried 227 passengers, including five young children, and 12 crew members. Most passengers were Chinese, but there were also citizens from the United States, Indonesia, France, Russia and elsewhere.\nJiang Hui (R), a relative of a passenger who was on Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, stands with other passenger family members as he speaks to media after a meeting in Beijing, China, March 8, 2025, on the 11th anniversary of the flight's disappearance.\nPEDRO PARDO\/AFP\/Getty\nAmong those aboard were two young Iranians traveling on stolen passports, a group of Chinese calligraphy artists, 20 employees of U.S. tech firm Freescale Semiconductor, a stunt double for actor Jet Li and several families with young children. Many families lost multiple members.\nLargest underwater search in history\nSearch operations began in the South China Sea between Malaysia and Vietnam, then expanded to the Andaman Sea and the southern Indian Ocean.\nAustralia, Malaysia and China\ncoordinated the largest underwater search in history\n, covering roughly 46,000 square miles of seabed off western Australia. Aircraft, vessels equipped with sonar and robotic submarines scoured the ocean for signs of the plane.\nSignals thought to be from the plane's black box turned out to be from other sources, and no wreckage was found. The first confirmed debris was a\nflaperon discovered on Réunion Island\nin July 2015, with\nadditional fragments\nlater found along the east coast of Africa. The search was suspended in January 2017.\nDirector General of Civil Aviation Malaysia, Azharuddin Abdul Rahman, left, shakes hand and exchanges the Memorandum of Understanding documents with CEO of Ocean Infinity Limited, Oliver Plunkett, right, during the signing ceremony of the MH370 missing plane search operations between Malaysian government and Ocean Infinity Limited in Putrajaya, Malaysia, Jan. 10, 2018.\nAP\nIn 2018, U.S. marine robotics company Ocean Infinity resumed the hunt under a \"no find, no fee\" agreement, focusing on areas identified through debris drift studies, but it ended without success.\nChallenging search conditions in the Indian Ocean\nOne reason such an extensive search may have failed to turn up clues is that no one knows exactly where to look. The Indian Ocean is the world's third largest, and the search was conducted in a difficult area, where searchers encountered bad weather and average depths of around 2.5 miles.\nIt's not common for planes to disappear in the deep sea, but when they do remains can be very hard to locate. Over the past 50 years, dozens of planes have vanished, according to the Aviation Safety Network.\nMalaysia's government gave the green light in March for another \"no-find, no-fee\" contract with Ocean Infinity to resume the seabed search operation across a newly identified 5,800-square-mile site in the ocean. Ocean Infinity will be paid $70 million for its work, but only if wreckage is discovered.\nIt is unclear if the company has new evidence of the plane's location. It has said it would utilize new technology and has worked with many experts to analyze data and narrow the search area to the most likely site.\nIn:\nPlane Crash\nMalaysia Airlines Flight 370\nMH370\nAsia","attrs_markdown":"- [Latest](https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/flight-mh370-malaysia-plane-crash-search-indian-ocean-resume-december\/)\n  - [U.S.](https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/us\/)\n  - [Iran War](https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/live-updates\/iran-war-trump-strait-of-hormuz-israel-ceasefire-talks\/)\n  - [Artemis II](https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/live-updates\/artemis-ii-splashdown-return\/)\n  - [World](https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/world\/)\n  - [Politics](https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/politics\/)\n  - [Entertainment](https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/entertainment\/)\n  - [HealthWatch](https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/healthwatch\/)\n  - [MoneyWatch](https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/moneywatch\/)\n  - [Crime](https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/crime\/)\n  - [Space](https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/space\/)\n  - [Sports](https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/)\n  - 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The packed passenger jet's disappearance without a trace sparked one of aviation's most baffling mysteries.\n\nDespite years of multinational searches, investigators still do not know exactly what happened to the plane or its 239 passengers and crew.\n\nThe Malaysian government said Wednesday that Ocean Infinity would resume its search from Dec. 30, about eight months after the last effort was abandoned. Malaysia's transport minister [announced in early April](https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/mh370-malaysia-airlines-flight-ocean-infinity-search-suspended\/) that a roughly [six-week search](https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/mh370-plane-malaysia-new-search\/) by the U.S. firm was ending, saying it wasn't \"the season\" for the work at sea. The minister said at the time that efforts would resume around the end of the year.\n\n![MALAYSIA-AVIATION-ACCIDENT-MH370 ](https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/12\/03\/3c98ca04-7907-48fb-b3d9-db41a2f5b2b4\/thumbnail\/620x357\/fa595bfdfd40be15b26bdb53f85162a2\/mh370-map-2249063996.jpg)\n\nA map shows the main locations relating to the 2014 disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.  John SAEKI and Nicholas SHEARMAN\/AFP via Getty\n\nThe government said Wednesday that Ocean Infinity would resume searching intermittently from Dec. 30 for a total of 55 days, in targeted areas believed to have the highest likelihood of finding the missing aircraft.\n\nHerculean search efforts in the southern Indian Ocean, where the jet is believed to have gone down, have thus far turned up virtually nothing. Apart from a few small fragments that washed ashore, no bodies or large wreckage have ever been recovered.\n\nBelow is a look at what we know about the deadly aviation tragedy.\n\n## \"Good night, Malaysian Three Seven Zero\"\nThe pilot's last radio call to Kuala Lumpur — a simple, \"Good night, Malaysian Three Seven Zero\" — was the final communication before the plane crossed into Vietnamese airspace. It never checked in with controllers there.\n\nMinutes later, the plane's transponder, which broadcasts its location, shut down. Military radar showed the jet turn back over the Andaman Sea, and satellite data suggested it continued flying for hours, possibly until fuel exhaustion, before crashing into a remote section of the southern Indian Ocean.\n\nTheories about what happened range from hijacking to cabin depressurization or power failure. There was no distress call, ransom demand, evidence of technical failure or severe weather.\n\nMalaysian investigators in 2018 cleared the passengers and crew but did not rule out \"unlawful interference.\" Authorities have said someone deliberately severed communications and diverted the plane.\n\n## Who was on MH370 when it vanished?\nMH370 carried 227 passengers, including five young children, and 12 crew members. Most passengers were Chinese, but there were also citizens from the United States, Indonesia, France, Russia and elsewhere.\n\n![CHINA-MALAYSIA-AVIATION-ACCIDENT-ANNIVERSARY ](https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/04\/03\/1a31aaea-15a2-4bd8-9e0b-71d36739c6fd\/thumbnail\/620x413g3\/a82459914121b4a37ceda9f9a432e27a\/mh370-2203308436.jpg)\n\nJiang Hui (R), a relative of a passenger who was on Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, stands with other passenger family members as he speaks to media after a meeting in Beijing, China, March 8, 2025, on the 11th anniversary of the flight's disappearance.  PEDRO PARDO\/AFP\/Getty\n\nAmong those aboard were two young Iranians traveling on stolen passports, a group of Chinese calligraphy artists, 20 employees of U.S. tech firm Freescale Semiconductor, a stunt double for actor Jet Li and several families with young children. Many families lost multiple members.\n\n## Largest underwater search in history\nSearch operations began in the South China Sea between Malaysia and Vietnam, then expanded to the Andaman Sea and the southern Indian Ocean.\n\nAustralia, Malaysia and China [coordinated the largest underwater search in history](https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/mystery-of-flight-370-as-deep-as-ever-three-years-later\/), covering roughly 46,000 square miles of seabed off western Australia. Aircraft, vessels equipped with sonar and robotic submarines scoured the ocean for signs of the plane.\n\nSignals thought to be from the plane's black box turned out to be from other sources, and no wreckage was found. The first confirmed debris was a [flaperon discovered on Réunion Island](https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/malaysia-airlines-flight-370-hopes-high-wing-flap-will-shed-light-on-mystery\/) in July 2015, with [additional fragments](https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/malaysia-airlines-flight-debris-wingflap-tanzania-identified-by-officials\/) later found along the east coast of Africa. The search was suspended in January 2017.\n\n![Malaysia Missing Plane ](https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2018\/01\/10\/5d971fd4-e2d0-4601-bf0d-666e1f84a305\/thumbnail\/620x413\/eb391c80dd6bb93caa85b232c8224981\/ocean-infinity-mh370-ap-18010263400194.jpg)\n\nDirector General of Civil Aviation Malaysia, Azharuddin Abdul Rahman, left, shakes hand and exchanges the Memorandum of Understanding documents with CEO of Ocean Infinity Limited, Oliver Plunkett, right, during the signing ceremony of the MH370 missing plane search operations between Malaysian government and Ocean Infinity Limited in Putrajaya, Malaysia, Jan. 10, 2018.  AP\n\nIn 2018, U.S. marine robotics company Ocean Infinity resumed the hunt under a \"no find, no fee\" agreement, focusing on areas identified through debris drift studies, but it ended without success.\n\n## Challenging search conditions in the Indian Ocean\nOne reason such an extensive search may have failed to turn up clues is that no one knows exactly where to look. The Indian Ocean is the world's third largest, and the search was conducted in a difficult area, where searchers encountered bad weather and average depths of around 2.5 miles.\n\nIt's not common for planes to disappear in the deep sea, but when they do remains can be very hard to locate. Over the past 50 years, dozens of planes have vanished, according to the Aviation Safety Network.\n\nMalaysia's government gave the green light in March for another \"no-find, no-fee\" contract with Ocean Infinity to resume the seabed search operation across a newly identified 5,800-square-mile site in the ocean. Ocean Infinity will be paid \\$70 million for its work, but only if wreckage is discovered.\n\nIt is unclear if the company has new evidence of the plane's location. 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All rights reserved.\n\nView CBS News In\n\nCBS News App\n\n[Open](https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/app\/?ftag=CNM-16-10abd6g&url=https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/flight-mh370-malaysia-plane-crash-search-indian-ocean-resume-december\/)\n\nChrome\n\nSafari\n\n[Continue](https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/flight-mh370-malaysia-plane-crash-search-indian-ocean-resume-december\/#app)","attrs_readable_markdown":"Updated on: December 3, 2025 \/ 8:01 AM EST \/ CBS\/AP\n\n[Add CBS News on Google](https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=cbsnews.com)\n\n*Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia* — Malaysia's government said Wednesday that American marine robotics company Ocean Infinity would soon resume the seabed search for [Malaysia Airlines Flight 370](https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/malaysia-airlines-flight-370\/), more than a decade after the plane vanished over the Indian Ocean.\n\nMH370, a Boeing 777, disappeared from air-traffic radar 39 minutes after departing from Kuala Lumpur enroute to Beijing, China, on March 8, 2014. The packed passenger jet's disappearance without a trace sparked one of aviation's most baffling mysteries.\n\nDespite years of multinational searches, investigators still do not know exactly what happened to the plane or its 239 passengers and crew.\n\nThe Malaysian government said Wednesday that Ocean Infinity would resume its search from Dec. 30, about eight months after the last effort was abandoned. Malaysia's transport minister [announced in early April](https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/mh370-malaysia-airlines-flight-ocean-infinity-search-suspended\/) that a roughly [six-week search](https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/mh370-plane-malaysia-new-search\/) by the U.S. firm was ending, saying it wasn't \"the season\" for the work at sea. The minister said at the time that efforts would resume around the end of the year.\n\n![MALAYSIA-AVIATION-ACCIDENT-MH370 ](https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/12\/03\/3c98ca04-7907-48fb-b3d9-db41a2f5b2b4\/thumbnail\/620x357\/fa595bfdfd40be15b26bdb53f85162a2\/mh370-map-2249063996.jpg)\n\nA map shows the main locations relating to the 2014 disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.  John SAEKI and Nicholas SHEARMAN\/AFP via Getty\n\nThe government said Wednesday that Ocean Infinity would resume searching intermittently from Dec. 30 for a total of 55 days, in targeted areas believed to have the highest likelihood of finding the missing aircraft.\n\nHerculean search efforts in the southern Indian Ocean, where the jet is believed to have gone down, have thus far turned up virtually nothing. Apart from a few small fragments that washed ashore, no bodies or large wreckage have ever been recovered.\n\nBelow is a look at what we know about the deadly aviation tragedy.\n\n## \"Good night, Malaysian Three Seven Zero\"\nThe pilot's last radio call to Kuala Lumpur — a simple, \"Good night, Malaysian Three Seven Zero\" — was the final communication before the plane crossed into Vietnamese airspace. It never checked in with controllers there.\n\nMinutes later, the plane's transponder, which broadcasts its location, shut down. Military radar showed the jet turn back over the Andaman Sea, and satellite data suggested it continued flying for hours, possibly until fuel exhaustion, before crashing into a remote section of the southern Indian Ocean.\n\nTheories about what happened range from hijacking to cabin depressurization or power failure. There was no distress call, ransom demand, evidence of technical failure or severe weather.\n\nMalaysian investigators in 2018 cleared the passengers and crew but did not rule out \"unlawful interference.\" Authorities have said someone deliberately severed communications and diverted the plane.\n\n## Who was on MH370 when it vanished?\nMH370 carried 227 passengers, including five young children, and 12 crew members. Most passengers were Chinese, but there were also citizens from the United States, Indonesia, France, Russia and elsewhere.\n\n![CHINA-MALAYSIA-AVIATION-ACCIDENT-ANNIVERSARY ](https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/04\/03\/1a31aaea-15a2-4bd8-9e0b-71d36739c6fd\/thumbnail\/620x413g3\/a82459914121b4a37ceda9f9a432e27a\/mh370-2203308436.jpg)\n\nJiang Hui (R), a relative of a passenger who was on Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, stands with other passenger family members as he speaks to media after a meeting in Beijing, China, March 8, 2025, on the 11th anniversary of the flight's disappearance.  PEDRO PARDO\/AFP\/Getty\n\nAmong those aboard were two young Iranians traveling on stolen passports, a group of Chinese calligraphy artists, 20 employees of U.S. tech firm Freescale Semiconductor, a stunt double for actor Jet Li and several families with young children. Many families lost multiple members.\n\n## Largest underwater search in history\nSearch operations began in the South China Sea between Malaysia and Vietnam, then expanded to the Andaman Sea and the southern Indian Ocean.\n\nAustralia, Malaysia and China [coordinated the largest underwater search in history](https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/mystery-of-flight-370-as-deep-as-ever-three-years-later\/), covering roughly 46,000 square miles of seabed off western Australia. Aircraft, vessels equipped with sonar and robotic submarines scoured the ocean for signs of the plane.\n\nSignals thought to be from the plane's black box turned out to be from other sources, and no wreckage was found. The first confirmed debris was a [flaperon discovered on Réunion Island](https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/malaysia-airlines-flight-370-hopes-high-wing-flap-will-shed-light-on-mystery\/) in July 2015, with [additional fragments](https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/malaysia-airlines-flight-debris-wingflap-tanzania-identified-by-officials\/) later found along the east coast of Africa. The search was suspended in January 2017.\n\n![Malaysia Missing Plane ](https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2018\/01\/10\/5d971fd4-e2d0-4601-bf0d-666e1f84a305\/thumbnail\/620x413\/eb391c80dd6bb93caa85b232c8224981\/ocean-infinity-mh370-ap-18010263400194.jpg)\n\nDirector General of Civil Aviation Malaysia, Azharuddin Abdul Rahman, left, shakes hand and exchanges the Memorandum of Understanding documents with CEO of Ocean Infinity Limited, Oliver Plunkett, right, during the signing ceremony of the MH370 missing plane search operations between Malaysian government and Ocean Infinity Limited in Putrajaya, Malaysia, Jan. 10, 2018.  AP\n\nIn 2018, U.S. marine robotics company Ocean Infinity resumed the hunt under a \"no find, no fee\" agreement, focusing on areas identified through debris drift studies, but it ended without success.\n\n## Challenging search conditions in the Indian Ocean\nOne reason such an extensive search may have failed to turn up clues is that no one knows exactly where to look. The Indian Ocean is the world's third largest, and the search was conducted in a difficult area, where searchers encountered bad weather and average depths of around 2.5 miles.\n\nIt's not common for planes to disappear in the deep sea, but when they do remains can be very hard to locate. Over the past 50 years, dozens of planes have vanished, according to the Aviation Safety Network.\n\nMalaysia's government gave the green light in March for another \"no-find, no-fee\" contract with Ocean Infinity to resume the seabed search operation across a newly identified 5,800-square-mile site in the ocean. 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Boilerpipe Text	Updated on: December 3, 2025 / 8:01 AM EST / CBS/AP Add CBS News on Google Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia — Malaysia's government said Wednesday that American marine robotics company Ocean Infinity would soon resume the seabed search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 , more than a decade after the plane vanished over the Indian Ocean. MH370, a Boeing 777, disappeared from air-traffic radar 39 minutes after departing from Kuala Lumpur enroute to Beijing, China, on March 8, 2014. The packed passenger jet's disappearance without a trace sparked one of aviation's most baffling mysteries. Despite years of multinational searches, investigators still do not know exactly what happened to the plane or its 239 passengers and crew. The Malaysian government said Wednesday that Ocean Infinity would resume its search from Dec. 30, about eight months after the last effort was abandoned. Malaysia's transport minister announced in early April that a roughly six-week search by the U.S. firm was ending, saying it wasn't "the season" for the work at sea. The minister said at the time that efforts would resume around the end of the year. A map shows the main locations relating to the 2014 disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. John SAEKI and Nicholas SHEARMAN/AFP via Getty The government said Wednesday that Ocean Infinity would resume searching intermittently from Dec. 30 for a total of 55 days, in targeted areas believed to have the highest likelihood of finding the missing aircraft. Herculean search efforts in the southern Indian Ocean, where the jet is believed to have gone down, have thus far turned up virtually nothing. Apart from a few small fragments that washed ashore, no bodies or large wreckage have ever been recovered. Below is a look at what we know about the deadly aviation tragedy. "Good night, Malaysian Three Seven Zero" The pilot's last radio call to Kuala Lumpur — a simple, "Good night, Malaysian Three Seven Zero" — was the final communication before the plane crossed into Vietnamese airspace. It never checked in with controllers there. Minutes later, the plane's transponder, which broadcasts its location, shut down. Military radar showed the jet turn back over the Andaman Sea, and satellite data suggested it continued flying for hours, possibly until fuel exhaustion, before crashing into a remote section of the southern Indian Ocean. Theories about what happened range from hijacking to cabin depressurization or power failure. There was no distress call, ransom demand, evidence of technical failure or severe weather. Malaysian investigators in 2018 cleared the passengers and crew but did not rule out "unlawful interference." Authorities have said someone deliberately severed communications and diverted the plane. Who was on MH370 when it vanished? MH370 carried 227 passengers, including five young children, and 12 crew members. Most passengers were Chinese, but there were also citizens from the United States, Indonesia, France, Russia and elsewhere. Jiang Hui (R), a relative of a passenger who was on Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, stands with other passenger family members as he speaks to media after a meeting in Beijing, China, March 8, 2025, on the 11th anniversary of the flight's disappearance. PEDRO PARDO/AFP/Getty Among those aboard were two young Iranians traveling on stolen passports, a group of Chinese calligraphy artists, 20 employees of U.S. tech firm Freescale Semiconductor, a stunt double for actor Jet Li and several families with young children. Many families lost multiple members. Largest underwater search in history Search operations began in the South China Sea between Malaysia and Vietnam, then expanded to the Andaman Sea and the southern Indian Ocean. Australia, Malaysia and China coordinated the largest underwater search in history , covering roughly 46,000 square miles of seabed off western Australia. Aircraft, vessels equipped with sonar and robotic submarines scoured the ocean for signs of the plane. Signals thought to be from the plane's black box turned out to be from other sources, and no wreckage was found. The first confirmed debris was a flaperon discovered on Réunion Island in July 2015, with additional fragments later found along the east coast of Africa. The search was suspended in January 2017. Director General of Civil Aviation Malaysia, Azharuddin Abdul Rahman, left, shakes hand and exchanges the Memorandum of Understanding documents with CEO of Ocean Infinity Limited, Oliver Plunkett, right, during the signing ceremony of the MH370 missing plane search operations between Malaysian government and Ocean Infinity Limited in Putrajaya, Malaysia, Jan. 10, 2018. AP In 2018, U.S. marine robotics company Ocean Infinity resumed the hunt under a "no find, no fee" agreement, focusing on areas identified through debris drift studies, but it ended without success. Challenging search conditions in the Indian Ocean One reason such an extensive search may have failed to turn up clues is that no one knows exactly where to look. The Indian Ocean is the world's third largest, and the search was conducted in a difficult area, where searchers encountered bad weather and average depths of around 2.5 miles. It's not common for planes to disappear in the deep sea, but when they do remains can be very hard to locate. Over the past 50 years, dozens of planes have vanished, according to the Aviation Safety Network. Malaysia's government gave the green light in March for another "no-find, no-fee" contract with Ocean Infinity to resume the seabed search operation across a newly identified 5,800-square-mile site in the ocean. Ocean Infinity will be paid $70 million for its work, but only if wreckage is discovered. It is unclear if the company has new evidence of the plane's location. It has said it would utilize new technology and has worked with many experts to analyze data and narrow the search area to the most likely site. In: Plane Crash Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 MH370 Asia
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MH370, a Boeing 777, disappeared from air-traffic radar 39 minutes after departing from Kuala Lumpur enroute to Beijing, China, on March 8, 2014. The packed passenger jet's disappearance without a trace sparked one of aviation's most baffling mysteries. Despite years of multinational searches, investigators still do not know exactly what happened to the plane or its 239 passengers and crew. The Malaysian government said Wednesday that Ocean Infinity would resume its search from Dec. 30, about eight months after the last effort was abandoned. Malaysia's transport minister [announced in early April](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mh370-malaysia-airlines-flight-ocean-infinity-search-suspended/) that a roughly [six-week search](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mh370-plane-malaysia-new-search/) by the U.S. firm was ending, saying it wasn't "the season" for the work at sea. The minister said at the time that efforts would resume around the end of the year. ![MALAYSIA-AVIATION-ACCIDENT-MH370 ](https://assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com/hub/i/r/2025/12/03/3c98ca04-7907-48fb-b3d9-db41a2f5b2b4/thumbnail/620x357/fa595bfdfd40be15b26bdb53f85162a2/mh370-map-2249063996.jpg) A map shows the main locations relating to the 2014 disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. John SAEKI and Nicholas SHEARMAN/AFP via Getty The government said Wednesday that Ocean Infinity would resume searching intermittently from Dec. 30 for a total of 55 days, in targeted areas believed to have the highest likelihood of finding the missing aircraft. Herculean search efforts in the southern Indian Ocean, where the jet is believed to have gone down, have thus far turned up virtually nothing. Apart from a few small fragments that washed ashore, no bodies or large wreckage have ever been recovered. Below is a look at what we know about the deadly aviation tragedy. ## "Good night, Malaysian Three Seven Zero" The pilot's last radio call to Kuala Lumpur — a simple, "Good night, Malaysian Three Seven Zero" — was the final communication before the plane crossed into Vietnamese airspace. It never checked in with controllers there. Minutes later, the plane's transponder, which broadcasts its location, shut down. Military radar showed the jet turn back over the Andaman Sea, and satellite data suggested it continued flying for hours, possibly until fuel exhaustion, before crashing into a remote section of the southern Indian Ocean. Theories about what happened range from hijacking to cabin depressurization or power failure. There was no distress call, ransom demand, evidence of technical failure or severe weather. Malaysian investigators in 2018 cleared the passengers and crew but did not rule out "unlawful interference." Authorities have said someone deliberately severed communications and diverted the plane. ## Who was on MH370 when it vanished? MH370 carried 227 passengers, including five young children, and 12 crew members. Most passengers were Chinese, but there were also citizens from the United States, Indonesia, France, Russia and elsewhere. ![CHINA-MALAYSIA-AVIATION-ACCIDENT-ANNIVERSARY ](https://assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com/hub/i/r/2025/04/03/1a31aaea-15a2-4bd8-9e0b-71d36739c6fd/thumbnail/620x413g3/a82459914121b4a37ceda9f9a432e27a/mh370-2203308436.jpg) Jiang Hui (R), a relative of a passenger who was on Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, stands with other passenger family members as he speaks to media after a meeting in Beijing, China, March 8, 2025, on the 11th anniversary of the flight's disappearance. PEDRO PARDO/AFP/Getty Among those aboard were two young Iranians traveling on stolen passports, a group of Chinese calligraphy artists, 20 employees of U.S. tech firm Freescale Semiconductor, a stunt double for actor Jet Li and several families with young children. Many families lost multiple members. ## Largest underwater search in history Search operations began in the South China Sea between Malaysia and Vietnam, then expanded to the Andaman Sea and the southern Indian Ocean. Australia, Malaysia and China [coordinated the largest underwater search in history](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mystery-of-flight-370-as-deep-as-ever-three-years-later/), covering roughly 46,000 square miles of seabed off western Australia. Aircraft, vessels equipped with sonar and robotic submarines scoured the ocean for signs of the plane. Signals thought to be from the plane's black box turned out to be from other sources, and no wreckage was found. The first confirmed debris was a [flaperon discovered on Réunion Island](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/malaysia-airlines-flight-370-hopes-high-wing-flap-will-shed-light-on-mystery/) in July 2015, with [additional fragments](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/malaysia-airlines-flight-debris-wingflap-tanzania-identified-by-officials/) later found along the east coast of Africa. The search was suspended in January 2017. ![Malaysia Missing Plane ](https://assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com/hub/i/r/2018/01/10/5d971fd4-e2d0-4601-bf0d-666e1f84a305/thumbnail/620x413/eb391c80dd6bb93caa85b232c8224981/ocean-infinity-mh370-ap-18010263400194.jpg) Director General of Civil Aviation Malaysia, Azharuddin Abdul Rahman, left, shakes hand and exchanges the Memorandum of Understanding documents with CEO of Ocean Infinity Limited, Oliver Plunkett, right, during the signing ceremony of the MH370 missing plane search operations between Malaysian government and Ocean Infinity Limited in Putrajaya, Malaysia, Jan. 10, 2018. AP In 2018, U.S. marine robotics company Ocean Infinity resumed the hunt under a "no find, no fee" agreement, focusing on areas identified through debris drift studies, but it ended without success. ## Challenging search conditions in the Indian Ocean One reason such an extensive search may have failed to turn up clues is that no one knows exactly where to look. The Indian Ocean is the world's third largest, and the search was conducted in a difficult area, where searchers encountered bad weather and average depths of around 2.5 miles. It's not common for planes to disappear in the deep sea, but when they do remains can be very hard to locate. Over the past 50 years, dozens of planes have vanished, according to the Aviation Safety Network. Malaysia's government gave the green light in March for another "no-find, no-fee" contract with Ocean Infinity to resume the seabed search operation across a newly identified 5,800-square-mile site in the ocean. Ocean Infinity will be paid \$70 million for its work, but only if wreckage is discovered. It is unclear if the company has new evidence of the plane's location. 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Readable Markdown	Updated on: December 3, 2025 / 8:01 AM EST / CBS/AP [Add CBS News on Google](https://www.google.com/preferences/source?q=cbsnews.com) Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia — Malaysia's government said Wednesday that American marine robotics company Ocean Infinity would soon resume the seabed search for [Malaysia Airlines Flight 370](https://www.cbsnews.com/malaysia-airlines-flight-370/), more than a decade after the plane vanished over the Indian Ocean. MH370, a Boeing 777, disappeared from air-traffic radar 39 minutes after departing from Kuala Lumpur enroute to Beijing, China, on March 8, 2014. The packed passenger jet's disappearance without a trace sparked one of aviation's most baffling mysteries. Despite years of multinational searches, investigators still do not know exactly what happened to the plane or its 239 passengers and crew. The Malaysian government said Wednesday that Ocean Infinity would resume its search from Dec. 30, about eight months after the last effort was abandoned. Malaysia's transport minister [announced in early April](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mh370-malaysia-airlines-flight-ocean-infinity-search-suspended/) that a roughly [six-week search](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mh370-plane-malaysia-new-search/) by the U.S. firm was ending, saying it wasn't "the season" for the work at sea. The minister said at the time that efforts would resume around the end of the year. ![MALAYSIA-AVIATION-ACCIDENT-MH370 ](https://assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com/hub/i/r/2025/12/03/3c98ca04-7907-48fb-b3d9-db41a2f5b2b4/thumbnail/620x357/fa595bfdfd40be15b26bdb53f85162a2/mh370-map-2249063996.jpg) A map shows the main locations relating to the 2014 disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. John SAEKI and Nicholas SHEARMAN/AFP via Getty The government said Wednesday that Ocean Infinity would resume searching intermittently from Dec. 30 for a total of 55 days, in targeted areas believed to have the highest likelihood of finding the missing aircraft. Herculean search efforts in the southern Indian Ocean, where the jet is believed to have gone down, have thus far turned up virtually nothing. Apart from a few small fragments that washed ashore, no bodies or large wreckage have ever been recovered. Below is a look at what we know about the deadly aviation tragedy. ## "Good night, Malaysian Three Seven Zero" The pilot's last radio call to Kuala Lumpur — a simple, "Good night, Malaysian Three Seven Zero" — was the final communication before the plane crossed into Vietnamese airspace. It never checked in with controllers there. Minutes later, the plane's transponder, which broadcasts its location, shut down. Military radar showed the jet turn back over the Andaman Sea, and satellite data suggested it continued flying for hours, possibly until fuel exhaustion, before crashing into a remote section of the southern Indian Ocean. Theories about what happened range from hijacking to cabin depressurization or power failure. There was no distress call, ransom demand, evidence of technical failure or severe weather. Malaysian investigators in 2018 cleared the passengers and crew but did not rule out "unlawful interference." Authorities have said someone deliberately severed communications and diverted the plane. ## Who was on MH370 when it vanished? MH370 carried 227 passengers, including five young children, and 12 crew members. Most passengers were Chinese, but there were also citizens from the United States, Indonesia, France, Russia and elsewhere. ![CHINA-MALAYSIA-AVIATION-ACCIDENT-ANNIVERSARY ](https://assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com/hub/i/r/2025/04/03/1a31aaea-15a2-4bd8-9e0b-71d36739c6fd/thumbnail/620x413g3/a82459914121b4a37ceda9f9a432e27a/mh370-2203308436.jpg) Jiang Hui (R), a relative of a passenger who was on Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, stands with other passenger family members as he speaks to media after a meeting in Beijing, China, March 8, 2025, on the 11th anniversary of the flight's disappearance. PEDRO PARDO/AFP/Getty Among those aboard were two young Iranians traveling on stolen passports, a group of Chinese calligraphy artists, 20 employees of U.S. tech firm Freescale Semiconductor, a stunt double for actor Jet Li and several families with young children. Many families lost multiple members. ## Largest underwater search in history Search operations began in the South China Sea between Malaysia and Vietnam, then expanded to the Andaman Sea and the southern Indian Ocean. Australia, Malaysia and China [coordinated the largest underwater search in history](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mystery-of-flight-370-as-deep-as-ever-three-years-later/), covering roughly 46,000 square miles of seabed off western Australia. Aircraft, vessels equipped with sonar and robotic submarines scoured the ocean for signs of the plane. Signals thought to be from the plane's black box turned out to be from other sources, and no wreckage was found. The first confirmed debris was a [flaperon discovered on Réunion Island](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/malaysia-airlines-flight-370-hopes-high-wing-flap-will-shed-light-on-mystery/) in July 2015, with [additional fragments](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/malaysia-airlines-flight-debris-wingflap-tanzania-identified-by-officials/) later found along the east coast of Africa. The search was suspended in January 2017. ![Malaysia Missing Plane ](https://assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com/hub/i/r/2018/01/10/5d971fd4-e2d0-4601-bf0d-666e1f84a305/thumbnail/620x413/eb391c80dd6bb93caa85b232c8224981/ocean-infinity-mh370-ap-18010263400194.jpg) Director General of Civil Aviation Malaysia, Azharuddin Abdul Rahman, left, shakes hand and exchanges the Memorandum of Understanding documents with CEO of Ocean Infinity Limited, Oliver Plunkett, right, during the signing ceremony of the MH370 missing plane search operations between Malaysian government and Ocean Infinity Limited in Putrajaya, Malaysia, Jan. 10, 2018. AP In 2018, U.S. marine robotics company Ocean Infinity resumed the hunt under a "no find, no fee" agreement, focusing on areas identified through debris drift studies, but it ended without success. ## Challenging search conditions in the Indian Ocean One reason such an extensive search may have failed to turn up clues is that no one knows exactly where to look. The Indian Ocean is the world's third largest, and the search was conducted in a difficult area, where searchers encountered bad weather and average depths of around 2.5 miles. It's not common for planes to disappear in the deep sea, but when they do remains can be very hard to locate. Over the past 50 years, dozens of planes have vanished, according to the Aviation Safety Network. Malaysia's government gave the green light in March for another "no-find, no-fee" contract with Ocean Infinity to resume the seabed search operation across a newly identified 5,800-square-mile site in the ocean. Ocean Infinity will be paid \$70 million for its work, but only if wreckage is discovered. It is unclear if the company has new evidence of the plane's location. It has said it would utilize new technology and has worked with many experts to analyze data and narrow the search area to the most likely site. In: - [Plane Crash](https://www.cbsnews.com/tag/plane-crash/) - [Malaysia Airlines Flight 370](https://www.cbsnews.com/tag/malaysia-airlines-flight-370/) - [MH370](https://www.cbsnews.com/tag/mh370/) - [Asia](https://www.cbsnews.com/tag/asia/)
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