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Flight MH370 10 years on: Malaysians unite in grief to remember the 239 on board missing plane
- MH370 disappeared while en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, leaving families bereft and without closure from one of aviation’s biggest mysteries
- Malaysian authorities have promised to embark on a third search for the missing plane after two previous failed attempts
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A downpour marked the start of a sombre morning in Kuala Lumpur as Malaysians on Friday marked 10 years since the disappearance of flight MH370 with an outpouring of grief and condolences for the 239 people on board the ill-fated Malaysia Airlines plane.
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Flight MH370, carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew, disappeared in the predawn hours of March 8, 2014 while en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, leaving relatives bereft and without closure from one of aviation’s biggest mysteries.
Most of the passengers were Chinese nationals while the others included dozens of Malaysians, along with victims from Australia, Canada, France, India, Indonesia, New Zealand, Russia, Ukraine, the Netherlands and the United States.
The disappearance stunned Malaysia – and the world – and, over the years, grim memories have been revived as searches have been launched to great fanfare across the Indian Ocean only to fail in the search for concrete evidence of what happened to the jet.
“I remember 10 years ago after 10 hours in the search for MH370, I was still following the updates on my hospital bed … even as I was getting wheeled into the labour room,” said one Aziza Berahim in a post on Facebook on Friday.
“Suddenly my daughter is now 10 years old. It’s so sad, I hope the families of the victims will get to the truth about what happened sooner or later.”
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