MALAYSIA will make “reasonable” efforts to continue the search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, in cooperation with China and Australia, said Transport Minister Dr Wee Ka Siong.

“We wish to re-assure that all reasonable efforts will be made to continue this search in cooperation with China and Australia, and to keep the next of kin informed of any future developments,” said Wee, who delivered a video message today on the 7th annual remembrance of the missing MH370 flight event, held via Zoom.

Voice370 – a support group for those who lost family members aboard MH370 – hosted the event.

Tomorrow, will mark seven years since the disappearance of MH370, which kicked off one of the largest search efforts in aviation history.

The Boeing 777-200ER en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing in the early hours of March 8, 2014, vanished from radar screens, with 227 passengers and 12 crew aboard.

Wee said the government wished for closure and shared with China and Australia the aim of finding the aircraft and solving the mystery.

“In the search for MH370, the governments of Malaysia, Australia and China have spared no expense and resources in our collective efforts to locate MH370. 

“Our shared aim was always to find the aircraft and get the answers,” he said.

Malaysia, Australia, and China jointly called off a two-year underwater search for the aircraft in January 2017.

By then, underwater searches for the plane in the Indian Ocean had covered 120,000 sq km and cost about A$200 million.

Malaysia then accepted a “no-cure, no-fee” offer from US exploration firm Ocean Infinity in 2018.

The three-month search covered 112,000 sq km north of the original target area, without any new discovery when it was called off in May 2018. 

Grace Subathirai Nathan, a Malaysian lawyer whose mother, Anne Daisy, was on the plane, hoped that other firms would come forward to help them again with the search of the missing flight.

An official 495-page report in July 2018 stated that MH370 was deliberately taken off course by a person or persons unknown. – March 7, 2021.