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Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim warns of high expectations for a breakthrough in the mystery surrounding Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, which disappeared more than ten years ago. “I don’t want to give you false hope that we will get an answer,” Anwar said in an interview with the German news agency in Berlin on Friday, addressed to the relatives of the missing. He added: “But I want to convince them that we are doing everything we can.” Even if it ends up costing ‘significant resources’.

He himself was surprised by what happened on March 8, 2014. “I can’t understand how such a steel giant can just disappear these days,” said the prime minister of the Southeast Asian country. The Malaysia Airlines plane was flying from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people from 14 countries when it disappeared from radar screens about two hours after takeoff. It is known that the plane flew over the Indian Ocean for about seven hours. What happened next remains one of the greatest mysteries in aviation history.

Debris washed up on shores along the Indian Ocean. There is still no trace of the plane’s main fuselage, its occupants or the flight recorder. Malaysia, China and Australia launched an underwater search that was canceled in 2017 without results.

A few days ago, Malaysian Transport Minister Anthony Loke announced that the search for the machine might resume. That’s why the American specialist company Ocean Infinity has offered a new search, which only requires payment if the company finds what it is looking for. Once the company’s final proposal is ready, it will be submitted to the Cabinet for approval, the minister said. He gave no time frame.

Prime Minister Anwar now said he expects a decision in the coming weeks. A previous search by Ocean Infinity had yielded no results. (saw/sda/dpa)