Malaysian PM Refuse to Declare passengers of MH370 dead

More than six weeks after Flight 370 disappeared,
Malaysia’s prime minister says his government is still not prepared to declare it — and the 239 people on board — lost.
“At some point in time I would be, but right now I think I need to take into account the feelings of the next of kin — and some of them have said publicly that they aren’t willing to accept it until they find hard evidence,” Najib Razak told CNN’s Richard Quest in an
exclusive TV interview.
Still, he said, it is “hard to imagine otherwise.” Najib also announced that his government will release a preliminary report next week on the plane’s disappearance. The report has already been submitted to the United Nations.
A month ago, Malaysia Airlines sent a text to relatives
of the passengers saying “we have to assume beyond any reasonable doubt that MH370 has been lost and that none of those onboard survived.”
Najib himself announced at the time that, based on
satellite data from Inmarsat, investigators had
determined the plane’s “last position was in the middle of the Indian Ocean, west of Perth. This is a remote
location, far from any possible landing sites. It is therefore with deep sadness and regret that I must
inform you that, according to this new data, flight
MH370 ended in the southern Indian Ocean.”
In the interview Thursday with CNN, Najib called it
“a bizarre scenario which none of us could have
contemplated.” How could a plane that was supposed to head toward Beijing end up “half-way toward
Antarctica?” he said. Najib said he repeatedly asked the investigators whether they were sure, “and their answer to me was, ‘We are as sure as we can possibly be.'”
The night of the flight’s disappearance, a military radar
picked up a plane traveling across the Malaysian Peninsula. Najib said he believes there was someone
monitoring the radar, “but the interpretation was done
after the event.” It was not known whether the plane
was MH370, he said, and no planes were sent up to
investigate “because it was deemed not to be hostile.” It
“behaved like a commercial airline, following a normal
flight path,” he said.
The vanishing of Flight 370 is “very, very different”
from the 1997 crash of a SilkAir flight and the 2009 loss of an Air France flight, Najib added. “This is totally unprecedented.” There have been only “pings” and “handshakes” to go by, he said. “That we have analyzed. That is all we have.”

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