PUTRAJAYA, March 8 — The search for the wreckage of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 in a new area of the southern Indian Ocean has not yielded any clues on the aircraft’s location.

The Ministry of Transport’s (MOT) Air Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) announced that the Malaysian government formalised an agreement with Ocean Infinity on March 25 last year to undertake a search operation covering a new 15,000 sq km area in the southern Indian Ocean.