MH370 search may resume if new evidence found: Malaysian PM

Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad speaks during a press conference after a Cabinet meeting in Putrajaya, Malaysia on May 30, 2018. A second search by a private U.S. company ended Tuesday with no signs of the plane after scouring the Indian Ocean seabed for more than three months.

Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad speaks during a press conference after a Cabinet meeting in Putrajaya, Malaysia on May 30, 2018. A second search by a private U.S. company ended Tuesday with no signs of the plane after scouring the Indian Ocean seabed for more than three months.   | Photo Credit: AP

Malaysia has come to a stage “where we cannot keep on searching for something we really cannot find”, says the Malaysian Prime Minister

Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad says Malaysia regrets having to end the search for Flight 370 and will consider resuming the hunt if any new information emerges.

The final search effort focused on the seabed in the distant Indian Ocean ended on Tuesday after more than three months. Malaysia had signed a “no cure, no fee” deal with U.S. technology company Ocean Infinity to resume the hunt in January, a year after the official search by Australia, Malaysia and China was called off.

Mr. Mahathir said on Wednesday that Malaysia has come to a stage “where we cannot keep on searching for something we really cannot find.”

The Malaysia Airlines plane vanished with 239 people on March 8, 2014, while flying from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.