KOTA KINABALU, Feb 27 — Despite the plethora of conspiracy theories and speculation about the missing Flight MH370, one man whose wife was among the 239 people aboard has maintained his faith in the Malaysian government and the Australian-led search mission.

Calvin Shim, whose wife Christine Tan was a stewardess on board the tragic flight, said he and his family were relying on verified news from the Malaysian government.

“Other than the Malaysian Government, I will only trust news from the countries involved with the search and rescue operations. I’m fed up of reading theories  and speculation, particularly those from western media. They cannot be trusted,” Shim told Berita Harian.

The Malay language daily said that Shim was still hoping to hear some good news about the flight, and that rumours and conspiracy theories about the missing MH370 were hurtful.

“We have been inundated with all kinds of speculations since day one and it is stressful. Everyone talks like they’re the expert.

“Some of it is really hurtful, especially when it touches a raw nerve.

“As long as the plane has not been found, I still think anything is possible,” said Shim.

His stance is almost the opposite to Sarah Bajc, who firmly believes that the plane’s disappearance which took along with her partner, Philip Wood, is a massive cover-up for something bigger.

Bajc said the incidents following the M370 tragedy — her email account being hacked, her apartment in Beijing broken into, and another plane being gunned down less than five months later — was too many coincidences to be taken at face value.

Meanwhile, a group of 21 Chinese nationals with family on board the missing aircraft created a memorandum to demand answers and greater transparency from Malaysia’s authorities.

The group criticised the Malaysian government for doing a poor job of sharing information, stressing that they have yet to receive any conclusive answers in the 11 months since the plane’s disappearance.

Recently, several conspiracy theories have sprung up in the weeks leading to the first anniversary of the disappearance of Flight MH370.

Pilot Jeff Wise wrote in New York magazine that hijackers had likely entered the jet’s electronics bay, and said they could have taken over flight controls and even changed the aircraft’s satellite transmissions.

He claimed that the plane was landed on an airstrip in Kazakhstan.

A National Geographic documentary, which will be aired on March 8, reportedly claims that the commercial plane may have been flown deliberately off-course towards the Antarctica.

A new book titled ‘Someone Is Hiding Something: What Happened to Malaysia Airlines Flight 370?’ by George Noory, Richard Belzer and David Wayne claims that Flight MH370 was cyberjacked.

Flight MH370 had seemingly disappeared without a trace last March 8, en route to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur, sparking a massive international search focused in the southern Indian Ocean off Australia which yet to recover any wreckage or bodies.