KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia will review and possibly end its agreement with a private U.S. firm searching for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, said Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad on Wednesday (May 23). Flight MH370, carrying 239 people, disappeared en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8, 2014, in one of the world's greatest aviation mysteries. The previous Malaysian administration had agreed in January to pay Houston-based Ocean Infinity up to US$70mil (RM278.5mil) if it found the plane during a search in the southern Indian Ocean that is expected to end in June. The announcement came as Dr Mahathir's administration moved to cut government spending after reviewing the country's debt levels. The Seabed Constructor vessel has covered 86,000 sq km so far but has yet to identify any significant findings, Ocean Infinity said in its weekly search update on May 15.

Source: The Star May 23, 2018 08:15 UTC