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"Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 returns after 10-year mystery"

Publisher’s rating: False

Related reporting describes a renewed search for MH370—not the aircraft returning. It says the flight disappeared on 8 March 2014 while traveling from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, and that the cause of its disappearance remained undetermined. The reported development was that a search for the wreckage was scheduled to resume over a decade later; the excerpts do not report that the plane or its passengers returned. The reporting gives a specific date for the planned operation: 30 December. It describes Ocean Infinity resuming seabed search operations in a targeted area of the southern Indian Ocean, under an agreement with Malaysia. This is a search for a missing aircraft, not evidence that it had been found. A related account also says the wreckage’s whereabouts remained unknown and quotes a person whose wife was aboard hoping the search would locate the plane.