Families of
the 239 people on board Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 on 8th March’15
Sunday marked the anniversary of the plane's disappearance with a vow to never
give up on the desperate search for wreckage and answers to the world's biggest
aviation mystery.
Voice
370, a support group
for the kin of those on board, hosted a "Day of Remembrance" at a
mall in Kuala Lumpur. Later Sunday, the Malaysian government released an
interim investigation report, a requirement under international civil aviation
regulations.
Although no wreckage has been found,
officials in Australia, Malaysia and China, the three countries leading the
search effort, says that they are still optimistic that the plane will be found
in the southern Indian Ocean where they suspect it crashed after deviating from
a flight to Beijing.
A year without a clue to the tragedy of
the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 has frustrated the relatives. The relatives
of the victims of the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 believe that the
Sunday's event was important "to highlight to the public that we still
don't have any answers and that we must pursue the search."
"The lack of answers and
definitive proof - such as aircraft wreckage - has made this more difficult to
bear," Malaysian Prime Minster Najib Razak said in a statement.
"Together with our international
partners, we have followed the little evidence that exists. Malaysia remains
committed to the search, and hopeful that MH370 will be found."
Foreign Minister Wang Yi of China,
where most of the passengers came from, said his government will provide
"all needed service to every next of kin" and help uphold their
"legitimate and lawful rights and interests."
In late January, Malaysia's government
formally declared Flight 370's disappearance an accident and said all 239
people on board were presumed dead. The statement was meant to pave the way for
compensation claims, but it angered many relatives who deemed it to be
premature without any physical evidence of the crash.
"I want to tell the next of kin
that I am also looking for the answers," Malaysian Transport Minister Liow
Tiong Lai told reporters Saturday. "Our priority now is on the search
," he said, adding that if nothing is found by the end of May, "then
we will have to go back to the drawing board" and come up with a new plan.
He said the safety investigation team
will release its interim report soon. Officials said it will detail the facts
but is unlikely to touch on the cause of the tragedy.
Ships dragging sonar devices have so
far scoured 44 percent of a 60,000-square-kilometer area off western Australia
where investigators who analyzed transmissions between the aircraft and a
satellite believe the plane eventually crashed after deviating from its route
with its transponder and other equipment switched off which leads to many other
crash and disappearance theories which remain unanswered.
Koustabh Das
Msc.Media || PG:1
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