China: Search for MH370 will not stop, relatives fight for answers

China’s foreign minister said on Sunday the search for a Malaysian Airlines flight which vanished one year ago will not stop. “The search for MH370 will continue,” Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on the sidelines of an annual meeting of China’s parliament.Despite a year of silence lapsing since the Boeing 777 jet presumably crashed in the southern Indian Ocean, with an international search yet to recover any wreckage or bodies, the relatives of the Chinese passengers on board refuse to accept their deaths. 15 families from China recently came to Malaysia to seek answers from the authorities, after Putrajaya declared last January that all onboard Flight MH370 were presumed dead and that the plane’s disappearance was an “accident”.

I am angry. So many questions went unanswered. They need to investigate better and come up with answers. They cannot just call it an accident.

Li Yue Ha, whose 29-year-old daughter was on the doomed flight

The search for the missing plane is currently focused underwater on a 60,000 square kilometre patch of the southern Indian Ocean off Western Australia. UK paper the Guardian reported Australian deputy prime minister Warren Truss’s office as saying Monday that 40 per cent of the priority search area has been covered so far. His office also reportedly said that Australia, Malaysia, China and possibly other countries will hold discussions on the “next steps” if the jet is not found at the end of the hunt.

Every day, I pray for their return and I take care of my wife. With her disappearance, there’s no meaning in my life.

Chinese national Zhang Yan Ming, whose only daughter was on Flight MH370

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