A US exploration company has offered to take on the search for flight MH370 which was suspended earlier this year, the firm and a Malaysian minister said Thursday, offering new hope to families of the missing. 

 

美国一家海底勘探公司和一名马来西亚政府官员上周四表示，该公司提出要搜寻马航失联客机MH370，让失联乘客家属再次燃起了希望。搜寻工作此前在年初终止。

 

No trace of the Boeing 777, which disappeared in March 2014 with 239 people on board, was found during a lengthy¹ deep sea hunt in the southern Indian Ocean off western Australia, with the search called off in January. 

 

Ocean Infinity², a seabed exploration firm which says it has the world's largest and most advanced commercial fleet of underwater vehicles for conducting searches, said it had proposed continuing the hunt. 

 

"I can confirm that we have made an offer," a spokesman said in an emailed statement to AFP, without giving further details. 

 

Malaysia's Deputy Transport Minister Aziz Kaprawi confirmed a company had made an approach and was only asking for payment in the event they find the plane.

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