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All passengers on missing Malaysia flight 370 dead!

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10 years ago

March 24, 2014

Malaysia Airlines Flight 370
went down in the southern Indian Ocean, Malaysian Prime Minister
Najib Razak said Monday, citing a new analysis of satellite data by a
British satellite company and accident investigators.
A relative of a missing passenger briefed by the airline in Beijing said,
“They have told us all lives are lost.”
While the announcement appeared to end hopes of finding survivors
more than two weeks after the flight vanished, it left many key
questions unanswered, including what went wrong aboard the
Beijing-bound airliner and the location of its wreckage in the deep,
wild waters of the Indian Ocean.
For families, some of whom had held out hope their relatives
somehow were still alive, the news appeared to be devastating. At a
briefing for relatives in Beijing, some were overcome and had to be
taken from a hotel on stretchers. In Kuala Lumpur, a woman walked
out of a briefing for families in tears.
“My son, my daughter-in-law and granddaughter
were all on board. All three family members are gone. I
am desperate!” a woman said outside the Beijing
briefing.
Another woman came out of the briefing room
screaming, expressing doubts about the Malaysian
conclusion.
“Where is the proof?” she said. “You haven’t confirmed
the suspected objects to tell us no one survived.”
Sarah Bajc, the partner of the only American aboard
the flight, Philip Wood, canceled all media interviews
after the announcement.
“I need closure to be certain, but cannot keep on with
public efforts against all odds,” she wrote. “I still feel his
presence, so perhaps it was his soul all along.”
While investigators have yet to find even a piece of the
plane, the Prime Minister based his announcement on
what he described as unprecedented analysis of satellite
data by British satellite provider Inmarsat and the
British Air Accidents Investigation Branch. He didn’t
describe the nature of the analysis.
But he said the data — drawn from satellite pings the
ill-fated airliner continued to send throughout its final
flight — made it clear that the plane’s last position was
in the middle of the remote southern Indian Ocean, “far
from any possible landing sites.”
He begged reporters to respect the privacy of relatives.
“For them, the past few weeks have been
heartbreaking,” he said. “I know this news must be
harder still.”
The Prime Minister’s statement came after the airline sent a text
message to relatives saying it “deeply regrets that we have to assume
beyond any reasonable doubt that MH370 has been lost and that none
of those onboard survived.”
The airline said it was making plans to fly families to Australia once
wreckage is found.