Families devastated by the loss of flight MH370 vowed Sunday never to quit fighting for answers in the aviation mystery and said the huge search for the Malaysia Airlines plane should continue until something is found.
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CBS- 240 white balloons floated skyward from a Kuala Lumpur shopping center as families of those on board Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 gathered to mark the two-year anniversary of the Boeing 777’s disappearance.
“To date the MH370 wreckage has still not been found despite the continuing search in the South Indian Ocean”, said the chief of the worldwide investigation team, Kok Soo Chon, in a brief statement he read on Malaysian television.
Many remain furious with the airline and Malaysian government, accusing them of letting the plane slip away through a bungled response, withholding information on what happened, and treating grieving relatives insensitively.
Martin Dolan, head of the Australian Transport Safety Bureau, was quoted as saying that the plane would “very likely” be found in the next four months, as search efforts entered its final phase.
Razak said searchers remain hopeful they will find the wreckage in an area of more than 10,000 square miles now being scanned, a process expected to be completed by summer.
Recently, an American adventurer found a piece of debris on a beach on the African east coast nation of Mozambique.
For many Chinese families, the impact of the disaster was magnified by the one-child policy, which over the past 30 years forced hundreds of millions of parents to pin all their hopes for the future on a single offspring.
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.
“If it is not, then Malaysia, Australia and China will hold a tripartite meeting to determine the way forward”. Although a long way from the suggested possible crash area, both finds are consistent with prevailing ocean currents that could carry debris across the Indian Ocean.
The family of an MH370 passenger has brought a lawsuit against Boeing in what is believed to be the first case filed in the United States against the manufacturer of the missing plane.
The eight-item list includes the flaperon that washed up on France’s Reunion island last July, which was subsequently proven to have come from the ill-fated aircraft. Plane operators will have to ensure their flight recorder data is recoverable, while the duration of cockpit voice recordings is being extended from two to 25 hours, ICAO said.
“Our lawyers told us that without the plane, we don’t have anything to go on”, Jacquita Gonzales, 53, the wife of in-flight supervisor Patrick Gomes said.
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“We are no closer to understanding what happened and why it happened”, said former Chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board, Mark Rosenker, who is now a CBS News aviation safety consultant.
