GEORGE TOWN, March 25 — The grieving father of Guan Hua Jin, 34, who was a passenger aboard the ill-fated Malaysia Airlines (MAS) MH370 flight, set off from Bayan Lepas, Penang for Kuala Lumpur this morning to obtain more information on the missing plane.
Guan Kak Hueng, 69, described the announcement by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak last night that the flight had “ended in the southern Indian Ocean”, as shocking.
“The whole family is aching right now. We cannot accept the news. I am heading to Kuala Lumpur to get a better grasp of the situation,” he said when contacted here today.
The watch dealer refused to comment further except to express his family’s gratitude to those who had rendered support in their sorrow.
Hua Jin, a mother of two children aged one and four years, was among the 239 passengers in the plane bound for Beijing. She was sent by her company to attend a three-week course.
Meanwhile, Jalil Saad, 54, said since the first day of the plane’s disappearance, he and other former Penang Free School (PFS) students had been meeting up and sharing information on the fate of their schoolmate and friend, MH370 pilot, Captain Zaharie Ahmad.
“Others who had worked in MAS and knew Zaharie as a colleague also joined us. Although we are not brothers we are like family, and we feel for Zaharie’s fate and that of his crew and the passengers.
“We had also been praying for their safety,” he said here today.
Jalil who is also PFS headmaster said the school planned to hold a ‘solat ghaib’ for Zaharie. — Bernama
