The on-again , off-again search for the wreckage of the Malaysian airliner that went missing 11 years ago is now back on. On Wednesday, the country’s transportation ministry announced that the marine survey company Ocean Infinity would begin scanning the Indian Ocean seabed on December 30, with the project to take 55 days, conducted “intermittently.”

MH370 , which took off from Kuala Lumpur, on March 8, 2014, was scheduled as a red-eye flight to Beijing and carried 239 passengers and crew. But the Boeing 777 went electronically dark 40 minutes into the flight, and mysterious satellite communications signals later indicated that it had flown to a remote area of the southern Indian Ocean before evidently crashing. Only a few dozen pieces of debris have ever been found.

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