A year after MH370 went missing on its way to Beijing, friends and family of the 239 people who were on board will gather in the Malaysian capital on Sunday to remember their loved ones and urge the authorities to continue their search for the aircraft and an answer to how it was able to disappear.
The centrepiece will be a Day of Remembrance, organised by the families at the outdoor courtyard of one of Kuala Lumpur’s most popular malls.
Malaysia Airlines, which owned the plane, is holding a private ceremony.
“Despite the passage of so much time it is unlikely that we will know anything more on the anniversary about the final moments of flight – nor our family members whereabouts – than we did a year ago,” wrote Voice370, the group that represents the families and is organising the Day of Remembrance.
“The situation is horrifically unprecedented. The search efforts have been futile; not a single piece of wreckage from the airplane has been found.”
MH370 took off from Kuala Lumpur in the early hours of March 8, 2014, but as the aircraft headed out into the South China Sea, communications were apparently turned off.
There was no official announcement that the aircraft was missing until it failed to land in Beijing as scheduled and, in a series of shambolic press conferences that only heightened the misery of the families, it eventually emerged that the plane had turned back over northern Malaysia and navigated a series of waypoints before disappearing.
It was only through the discovery and unprecedented analysis of automatic satellite communications that investigators were able to deduce the plane was somewhere along an arc from Kazakhstan in the north to the Indian Ocean in the south.
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