It has been exactly half a year, since Malaysia Airlines (MAS) Flight MH370 vanished mysteriously with 239 people on board.
The 239 people from 14 countries, is someone’s father, mother, brother, sister, husband, wife, friend and so many other relations, whose name alone, would have brought beautiful memories to their loved ones.
However, six months since the world's greatest aviation mystery, the victims’ families are only left with frustration, despair, tears and a sense of loss as they try to believe that their loved ones would probably not return, yet having hope after hope that they finally would.
Many are still pining for their loved ones who boarded MH370.
“A few days ago, I prayed to God that if my dad is alive, please let him come into my dreams and I dreamt about him for the next three days.”
These were the words of Maira Elizabeth Nari, the daughter of MH370 chief steward Andrew Nari, who said she is still pining for her dad and her hope that he will return one day, has never faded.
According to Maira, the dream strengthened her belief that her father would come back and she takes it as a sign from God.
“The first dream was about a collage of pictures. In one of the pictures, my dad was looking at me. Another picture depicts a scenery of a jungle. In yet, another picture he was lying down.
“In the second dream, my dad came back home to celebrate a barbeque party at my aunt’s house. This sort of party is a norm in our family. However, in this dream, he had long hair.
“The third dream was almost similar to the second one, but my dad was skinny and bald,” she said.
Like Maira, many MH370 victims’ families are still waiting for the safe return of their loved ones.
MH370, with 239 people, mostly Chinese nationals, went missing on March 8 about an hour after taking off from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.
More than 26 countries have been involved in the search for the Boeing 777, but after six months, it has still not been found.
After 17 days of the flight’s disappearance, the Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak announced that the MH370 ended in the southern Indian Ocean.
Najib made the announcement based on the results of the analysis by the Air Accidents Investigation Branch United Kingdom (AAIB) and Inmarsat, the UK company that provides satellite data showing the northern and southern corridors.
Amidst many conspiracy theories like hijack and sabotage, a report in June by the Australian Transport Safety Bureau concluded that most likely scenario was that the flight coasted into the ocean on autopilot, while the pilots were unresponsive because of hypoxia, often caused by depressurisation.
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott who visited Malaysia on Friday, pledged to help Malaysia to solve the mysterious case.
"We owe to the families of those lost, we owe to the grieving countries, we owe to the curious all over the world, to do whatever we can, to resolve this mystery (of the missing MH370).
"We will not rest until it is resolved...Australia-Malaysia will be the strongest possible partners in this important task," he said.
A renewed search effort has been started for the aircraft, with the Malaysian and Australian governments having signed a memorandum of understanding last month.
T K Letchumy Tamboo
Mon Sep 08 2014
It has been exactly half a year, since Malaysia Airlines (MAS) Flight MH370 vanished mysteriously with 239 people on board.
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