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Australia offers Malaysia help in a possible new search for the Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, which mysteriously vanished from air traffic radar in 2014, and is ready to provide technical information from previous operations, the Australian government said on Friday on the 10th anniversary of the flight's disappearance.
Last week, Malaysian authorities said they might renew the search for the missing aircraft, after US company Ocean Infinity, which attempted to find the plane in 2018, proposed a fresh "no find, no fee" search operation.
"The Australian Government is supportive of all practical efforts to find MH370. Australia stands ready to assist the Malaysian Government if it considers that Australian agencies can offer technical information as a result of their involvement in previous searches," Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong and Transport Minister Catherine King said in a joint statement.
In 2014, Australia coordinated one of the biggest search operations immediately after the aircraft vanished. Over 3 million square kilometers (741,316 acres) above the water and more than 120,000 square kilometers under the water were searched, but the missing aircraft was not discovered, the statement read.
On the night of March 8, 2014, Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, a Boeing 777-200 with 227 passengers and 12 crew members on board, disappeared from radar during a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. The plane is believed to have gone down in the southern Indian Ocean. Its crash site has not been found yet.
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