Regardless of the most important search in aviation historical past, the aircraft has by no means been discovered. (Representational)

Kuala Lumpur:

Family of passengers on a Malaysia Airways aircraft that mysteriously vanished 10 years in the past pushed for a brand new search Sunday as they spoke of tolerating grief and the battle to search out closure.

Flight MH370, a Boeing 777 plane carrying 239 folks, disappeared from radar screens on March 8, 2014, whereas en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.

Regardless of the most important search in aviation historical past, the aircraft has by no means been discovered.

About 500 kinfolk and their supporters gathered Sunday at a purchasing centre close to the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur for a “remembrance day”, with many visibly overcome with grief.

Some got here from China, the place virtually two-thirds of the passengers of the doomed aircraft have been from.

“The final 10 years have been a nonstop emotional rollercoaster for me,” Grace Nathan, a 36-year-old Malaysian lawyer whose mom, Anne Daisy, 56, was on the flight, advised AFP.

Talking to the group, she referred to as on the Malaysian authorities to conduct a brand new search.

“MH370 is just not historical past,” she mentioned.

Liu Shuang Fong, 67, from China’s Hebei province misplaced her 28-year-old son Li Yan Lin, who was additionally a passenger on the aircraft.

“I demand justice for my son. The place is the aircraft?” mentioned Liu, who flew to Malaysia for the occasion.

“The search should go on,” she added.

A close to three-year search protecting 120,000-square kilometres (46,000-square miles) within the Indian Ocean discovered hardly any hint of the aircraft, with just some items of particles picked up.

The Australian-led operation was suspended in January 2017.

A US exploration agency launched a non-public hunt for MH370 in 2018, but it surely ended after a number of months of scouring the seabed with out success.

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