"I believe that they should continue the search. My biggest hope is that the search will go on. And I believe that it will. I just hope that it starts soon," Grace Nathan, whose mother was on a family trip to visit her father in China when she boarded MH370 10 years ago, told Sputnik.
Nathan added that she believed the search for MH370 would require extraordinary efforts.
"MH370 is touted as the world's greatest aviation mystery and the world's biggest aviation disaster. The effort [for the search] is also the same. It's going to be the biggest effort. It's going to be an unprecedented effort," she said.
After MH370 lost contact with air traffic control on March 8, 2014, the fate of the 227 passengers and 12 crew members aboard the airplane remained unclear 10 years after the accident.
Despite the official investigation report from Malaysian authorities concluding that MH370 ended its journey in the southern Indian Ocean, the main body of the aircraft has not been located.
Nathan expressed hope that private companies willing to continue to search for MH370 could make the search efforts financially feasible for Malaysian authorities.
"There are some companies that are really capable of doing deep water search. And they are willing to do it on a no-cure-no-fee basis. That is a win-win for everybody involved because the searching company is willing to search at their own cost and expense. And Malaysia only pays if the plane is found. There's no downside to that," she said.
In the early hours of March 8, 2014, a Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200 flight MH370 from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing carrying 239 people disappeared from radar screens. The search operation failed to locate the plane's crash site. The aircraft wreckage was not found after a three-year search financed by authorities from several countries.
Last week, Malaysian Transport Minister Anthony Loke pledged to resume the search for MH370 and to sign a new contract with US seabed exploration company Ocean Infinity to this end.