ALBAWABA – A decade after Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 disappeared into the unknown, which set off world’s biggest search in aviation history, victims’ families are calling for a new investigation on the whereabouts of the plane, with Malaysian transport minister Anthony Luke stating his attempt to renew the search as reported by DW.
Flight MH370 took off from Kuala Lumpur in a commercial flight to Beijing on Mar. 8, 2014, holding 227 passengers and 12 crew members, sending a last voice transmit at 1:19am local time then its communication system was abundantly switched off after two minutes right before it entered the Vietnamese airspace, prompting the Malaysian military and civilian radar to look for the vanished flight, followed with a series of events that resulted in the largest search in aviation history.
To memorialize the missing, hundreds of family members and friends gathered on Sunday in a shopping center close to Kuala Lumpur to light candles, with each of the 239 lights they lit representing a lost traveler as the 10-year anniversary of flight’s disappearance looms.
March 3, 2024, an event held by relatives of the passengers and supporters to mark the 10th year since the Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 carrying 239 people disappeared on March 8, 2014 (AFP)
According to The Guardian, family members doubted the police' dedication to solving the case. "Is the government interested at all in the truth and finding answers?" KS Narendran inquired, who lost his spouse Chandrika on the flight, adding in a video message "We wish to see action … Taking MH370 as an anomalous event and adopting a business-as-usual stance is to normalize a safety threat as an acceptable travel and business risk.”
In 2017, a joint underwater search effort by Malaysia, China, and Australia, which cost 200 million Australian dollars ($130.7 million US), was concluded after two years without any fruitful results, Al Jazeera reports, with Ocean Infinity undertaking the task of locating the lost aircraft in 2018, with a potential reward of up to $70 million from Malaysia if they were successful, yet both searches yielded no results.
