KUALA LUMPUR, March 9 – Family members of passengers and crew of MH370 are still waiting for answers, one year after the flight vanished while traveling from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. Although the government had declared MH370 an accident under international aviation regulations and all 239 passengers and crew were deemed to have perished, they still hope the search mission will continue.
Intan Maizura Othman, 35, the wife of steward Mohd Hazrin Mohamed Hasnan, 35, said she really missed her husband, especially when the children asked about their father’s whereabouts. “I can accept fate but the search for MH370 must not stop although one year has passed.
This is very painful for me. Its important to bring them home, dead or alive,” she told reporters when met at ‘MH370 Day of Remembrance’ here, Sunday. The mother of two children, Iman, 6, and Muhammad,1, said despite tired of reading speculation in the mass media, she is still waiting for proof that her husband is dead.
‘MH370 Day of Remembrance’ was organised by Voice370 representing the family of passengers and crew to commemorate exactly one year since MH370 vanished. Mohd Hasnan Kamaruddin, 66, the father of Mohd Hazrin said, no family member want the search mission to stop as no proof has been found.
“I applaud the efforts of the organiser (Voice370) who campaigned for the government to continue the search. I can accept what happened but still expect to see proof that my son is dead.” Kamariah Sharif, 56, the mother of passenger Mohd Razahan Zamani,24, said she will not claim compensation as she believe that her son and daughter-in-law Norli Akma Hamid,34, are still alive.
“I don’t want compensation as long as there is no proof. If they died, I want to see their remains. I will not lose hope and will continue to pray. A family member of a passenger from China hopes the Malaysian government and Malaysia Airlines (MAS) would not stop the search until they find an answer.
Zhang Yongli, who was present at the event, said her daughter Zhang Qi was travelling with her husband and child. Jacquita Gonzalez, the wife of MH370 supervisor Patrick Francis Gomez said she has not given up and always pray for an answer to the mystery.
“We are holding on, there is no closure for us. We just move on and do what we are doing everyday. I just pray for a good outcome,” she said. On March 8, 2014, MH370 went missing while flying over the South China Sea about an hour after taking off from KL International Airport (KLIA) at 12.41 am.
The Boeing 777-200ER aircraft with 227 passengers and 12 crew was scheduled to land in Beijing at 6.30 am on the the same day. The search for the aircraft in the Indian Ocean has covered about 40 percent of the search area of 60,000 sq km, while about 208,000 sq km has been mapped.
