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Explorers will attempt to find the missing Malaysia Airlines flight that vanished 11 years ago with 239 people on board. Ocean Infinity will conduct a deep-sea exploration over 55 days from the end of December to find Flight MH370, the Malaysian government has confirmed.

The flight disappeared from all air traffic control systems less than an hour after takeoff from Kuala Lumpur on March 8, 2014, triggering one of the largest search efforts in history. Over the years, debris from the aircraft has washed up on shores along Africa and Indian Ocean islands, but the flight recorder has never been located to tell the story of what happened to the Boeing 777 with 227 passengers and 12 crew onboard.

In a statement on Wednesday morning, the Malaysian government said: "Ocean Infinity has confirmed with the Government of Malaysia that it will recommence seabed search operations for a total of 55 days, to be conducted intermittently.

"The search will be carried out in a targeted area assessed to have the highest probability of locating the aircraft, in accordance with the service agreement entered into on 25 March 2025."

Flight MH370 lost contact with air traffic control shortly after a radio call at approximately 38 minutes into the flight on its route to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur.

However, military radar continued to track, showing that it had veered sharply west before reaching Vietnam, which led it back towards the Malay Peninsula.

Ocean Infinity has previously attempted to search for the aircraft in 2018 using autonomous underwater vehicles, which was called off after three months. They have now been offered a £56 million reward, but only if the aircraft is located.

The company had hoped to start the mission earlier this year after cabinet approved the mission in March to search a 15,000 sq km section of the southern Indian Ocean, but it was called off due to bad weather.

Since the attempt in 2018, the company said it feels more technologically advanced to undertake the mission, with the use of robotic autonomous underwater vehicles, and surface vessels that use AI-enhanced seabed mapping to detect debris.

Oliver Plunkett, Ocean Infinity's chief executive, told the New Straits Times that this search is "arguably the most challenging, and indeed the most pertinent one out there".

"We've been working with many experts, some outside of Ocean Infinity, to continue analysing the data in the hopes of narrowing the search area down to one in which success becomes potentially achievable."

Multiple search efforts have previously been unsuccessful, including a multi-national search with a much larger radius of 74,000 sq km, that was called off in 2017.