Kuala Lumpur — A US seabed exploration firm has offered to take on the search for Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, families of passengers and a Malaysian government minister said on Wednesday, in a bid to solve one of the world’s greatest aviation mysteries. The Boeing 777 disappeared in 2014 en route to Beijing from the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur with 239 people aboard. Analysis of radar and satellite contacts suggested someone on board may have deliberately switched off the plane’s transponder before diverting it thousands of kilometres out over the Indian Ocean. Australia, Malaysia and China called off a two-year A$200m search for the aircraft in January, amid protests from families of those onboard. Grace Nathan, a Malaysian lawyer whose mother Anne Daisy was on the plane, said the US company, Ocean Infinity, had offered to resume the search for free, and had asked for a reward only in the event that the aircraft was found. Deputy Malaysian Transport Minister Aziz Kaprawi ...
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