'GIVE US THE TRUTH!' - Families of those on MH370 claim they have NOT been told everything
FAMILIES of those on board missing Malaysia Airlines flight 370 have demanded the truth from authorities as today marks five years since its disappearance.
MH370 vanished on March 8 2014 en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people on board. KS Narendran lost his wife Chandrika Sharma on MH370 and claims the 459-page document published last year does not contain the whole truth. He wrote an open letter to the international community to continue the search for answers.
He said: “Our prayers have remained unchanged: Find the plane. Find the passengers. Give us answers to what, why, how and if it comes to it, who.
“Give us the truth. Yes, give us the truth.
“Not too many people we know are convinced that 459 pages of the 2018 report is the sum total of all that is known regarding the disappearance of MH370.
“Those who know more but have chosen silence, if indeed there are some, will eventually die a thousand deaths each day, for guilt is a latecomer but unforgiving squatter.
“It is the order of things and not what we would wish for them.”
The second search for MH370 ended in May last year with no wreckage found and no concrete answers for families.
It has been concluded that the plane most likely ended up at the bottom of the Indian Ocean, but they are not sure exactly where.
Mr Narendran added that it should not be the sole responsibility of Malaysia to be searching for these answers.
He said MH370 is linked to all those in the world exposed to civil aviation.
The widower said: “In this search for the truth, there isn’t a Malaysian truth, an Australian truth, a British truth or an American one. Or even an Indian and a Chinese one.
“There were 239 passengers from 14 countries. An international mix of nationalities.
“A Boeing 777, an American company’s product.
“The incident is believed to have occured in the Indian Ocean, in international waters.
“The investigation is governed by the conventions written n by the International Civil Aviation Organisation.
“Experts from across the world when consulted or otherwise, have weighed in with their analysis and recommendations regarding the search.
"It is an event that concerns every airline, every passenger and perhaps almost every family across the world exposed to civil aviation.
“To suggest as some do that it should be left to Malaysians to script the story and the end game does not cut ice.”