MH370: Psychological state of families at its lowest

The families of the passenger of flight MH370 is now facing a most difficult period because they have not received any confirmed information about the fate of their loved ones.

According to Wang Jian, a psychologist from Huilongguan Hospital, their psychological state is probably at the lowest, especially after being told that the flight had ended at the South Indian Ocean.

Wang is among 18 psychologists who are currently helping family members in Beijing to cope with this difficult situation.

He said that all the family members cried loudly the night Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak announced that the flight ended in the South Indian Ocean.

Wang himself, who has been a psychologist for thirty years, couldn't hold back his tears and he says that none of the families were willing to speak to anyone even after they had calmed down.

Flight MH370, which carried 227 passengers and 12 crew members, disappeared from radar detection while over the South China Sea on 8 March, a little over an hour after departing from the Kuala Lumpur International Airport at 12:41am.

154 of the 229 passengers were Chinese citizens.

The plane was to have landed in Beijing at 6:30am on the same day.

Prime Minister Najib announced on 24 March, 17 days after it's disappearance, that the Boeing 777-200 plane had "ended at the South Indian Ocean".