SHAH ALAM, July 26 — It has been four months since Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 went missing, leaving family members of those on board in a limbo over their future and some still yearning for their lost loved ones. 

Five-year-old Iman, daughter of MH370 steward Mohd Hazrin Hasnan, has to be given counselling as she is emotionally distressed due to her longing for her father.

Her mother, Intan Maizura Othaman, 34, a MAS stewardess, said she had to refer Iman to a counsellor as her daughter had been crying every night lately. 

“Each night, Iman, who is very close to her father, will sleep with his shirt and a framed picture of him by the bed.

“Often she would wake up crying and said she dreamed of her father,” told reporters after receiving a visit from Women, Family and Community Development Minister Datuk Seri Rohani Abdul Karim at her house here today. 

Flight MH370 was carrying 239 passengers and crew when it disappeared from the radar while flying over South China Sea on March 8 after departing Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Sepang at 12.41am. 

To date, efforts to find the aircraft in waters of western Australia in the South Indian Ocean have been fruitless. 

Asked on the preparation for the Aidilfitri celebration, Intan Maizura, who has been on unpaid leave for three months after giving birth to her second child, Muhammad, now two months old, said they were mostly for the children.

“Raya will no longer be the same for me,” she added.

On the MH17 which crashed in east Ukraine, near the Russian border, Intan Maizura said when she first saw a picture of the plane, she had initially thought that the MAS aircraft was MH370 and was shocked after finding that it was MH17.

“I was very sad because I lost another group of my colleagues,” she added.

Meanwhile, Rohani said she visited Intan Maizura to give her moral support.

“We will also visit the families of passengers and other crew of MH370 on Hari Raya or after that,” she said. — Bernama