Malaysian and French authorities said past year that an aircraft flaperon found on the French Indian Ocean island of La Reunion belonged to the missing plane.
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On Tuesday, Najib said the country “remains hopeful” that the plane would be found as the search for the aircraft continues following the second anniversary of its disappearance.
The search operation is said to cost some US$133.3 million, which is footed by Australia and Malaysia, with an additional US$14.8 million from China.
Malaysia’s second interim report on the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 on 8 March 2014 contains no new details about the aircraft’s mysterious disappearance.
Outnumbered by police, they chanted, “We won’t give up until you return my family members”.
Families of 32 other passengers, mostly Chinese, filed a separate lawsuit in Malaysia, their lawyer has said.
A team of worldwide investigators set up in the wake of the disappearance will issue a statement in Kuala Lumpur at 3pm (6pm AEDT/7am GMT) – part of a requirement under global rules to release an update each year.
“I reiterate to the families, we and all the search team are totally committed to the search and remain confident we will find it”, he said.
The man who runs the website UFO Sightings Daily is claiming he has spotted what could be the wreckage of missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 near the Cape of Good Hope.
So far only one piece of debris found a year ago on Reunion east of Madagascar has been confirmed as belonging to the plane.
Numerous parents of MH370’s 153 Chinese passengers – among 239 people on board – are elderly and retired, a time when their children would traditionally have looked after them in a multi-generational household.
But with a two-year deadline to take legal action looming, scores have filed suit for the wrongful deaths of their relatives, even while some insist they are still alive.
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Authorities have said the search will not be extended beyond June if no credible information is uncovered.
The lawsuit named the airline, the Malaysian government and its air force and civil aviation department, he said.
On the anniversary of Malaysia Airline’s flight MH370’s disappearance, the United Nations Aviation Agency has announced changes that will require aircraft to report their location in real-time.
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It’s very unlikely that anyone was in control of the plane when it hit the ocean, Martin Dolan, head of the Australian Transport Safety Bureau, said in an interview last month.
