The decade-old mystery of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 could finally be solved by a group of people in Southampton. On March 8, 2014, MH370 was heading from Kuala Lumpur, the Malaysian capital, to Beijing, when it deviated from its scheduled path. The plane, a Boeing 777 carrying 239 people from 15 countries, was never seen again as it drifted towards the Indian Ocean.
![[Visitors are writing messages at the Day of Remembrance for MH370 in Petaling Jaya, Malaysia, on March 3, 2024. Today marks the 10th anniversary of the disappearance of Flight MH370, a Boeing 777 aircraft with 239 people on board, which vanished from radar screens on March 8, 2014, while flying from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. (Photo by Supian Ahmad/NurPhoto via Getty Images)]](https://metro.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/SEI_233824887-b771.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=646)
MH370 remains one of the greatest aviation mysteries of all time, with everything from a hijacking to time travel proposed all while the families of the missing fear the world will move on. Now a Houston-based underwater robotics company, Ocean Infinity, is hoping to finally solve it.
![[INDIAN OCEAN - This handout Satellite image made available by the AMSA (Australian Maritime Safety Authority) shows a map of the planned search area for missing Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370 on March 21, 2014. Australian authorities yesterday received satellite imagery that shows two large objects in the Indian Ocean that may be debris from missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370. The airliner went missing nearly two weeks ago carrying 239 passengers and crew on route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. (Photo by AMSA via Getty Images)]](https://metro.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/SEI_233824881-2415.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=646)
Working with Malaysian officials, the company will soon launch an army of drones to scour 6,000 miles of ocean floor. And all from the company’s base in Woolston, a suburb of the English port town Southampton. Inside the south coast control room, workers will soon sit in pods on gaming-like chairs operating the bots that use sonar technology to see, The Times reported.
Simon Maskell, professor of autonomous systems at the University of Liverpool, met with Malaysian ministers in May in a bid to get the green light for Ocean Infinity’s third bid at finding the doomed aircraft. Together with aerospace engineer Richard Godfrey, Maskell believes that searchers can use flimsy radio waves to track down MH370.
