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Yet another new search effort for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 will begin later this month, according to the Malaysian transport ministry. The search is expected to start on Dec. 30 and last for around 55 days.

It has been more than 11 years since Flight MH370 vanished without a trace on March 8, 2014. Neither the plane nor any of the 239 people who were on board have been seen since that fateful day.

Numerous theories have been put forth, and several searches have taken place. The most recent search effort took place earlier this year. British marine robotics and maritime exploration firm Ocean Infinity conducted it. The company searched the Indian Ocean about 1,200 miles off the coast of Perth, Australia, but once again came up empty.

Ocean Infinity will once again be doing the searching. As with their previous efforts, they will do so on a “no find, no fee” basis. This means that the company will only be paid when it finds missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370. Should that finally occur, they will be paid $70 million by the Malaysian government.

Payments to families ordered by a Chinese court

On Monday, it was reported that a court ordered Malaysia Airlines to pay eight families of the missing victims. The total compensation comes to over $410,000 per passenger. The South China Morning Post reports that it is the first formal compensation ruling by a Chinese court on Flight MH370.

According to state broadcaster CCTV, families of 75 missing Chinese passengers have filed a total of 78 lawsuits since 2016. 47 of the cases were withdrawn after settlements were reached. 23 cases are still pending.

For more than 11 years, scientists, aviation experts, filmmakers, internet sleuths, and even local fishermen who have studied the disappearance of Flight MH370. They have put forth numerous theories as to what they believe happened.

Last week, reports surfaced about an oil rig worker who believes he saw the plane before it went missing. He claimed to have witnessed the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 engulfed in flames while working off the coast of Vietnam. His alleged sighting, however, has not been confirmed.

Now, Dr. Vincent Lyne, a former University of Tasmania researcher, claims acoustic data detected on March 8, 2014, may be the piece that finally solves this puzzle.

Express reports Dr. Lyne believes these signals, combined with satellite data, point to the Penang Longitude Deep Hole. It is a 3.7-mile depression located about 930 miles west of Perth.

“MH370 did not vanish without trace, the traces which required the resolution of sound timings to seconds and directions to within a degree, simply could not be fitted to the wrong official locations around the 7th arc,” he said.

“The convergence of physics, acoustics, satellite telemetry, and debris forensics, together with the resolved riddles hidden in the Pilot-in-Command home simulator track, all point to one small, unsearched trench. That is where MH370 is.”

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Doug Sheckler is a Senior Editor at MotorBiscuit and BroBible. He began his professional career working for an auto racing sanctioning body, and subsequently founded his own racing series, which remains in operation today. He has since spent the better part of two decades creating, editing, and writing for a variety of websites.

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