PUTRAJAYA, Jan 29 — The Department of Civil Aviation (DCA) abruptly cancelled today a planned media briefing on the missing Malaysia Airlines (MAS) flight MH370, after postponing it for half an hour.
“The media briefing has been called off due to unforeseen circumstances,” a Putrajaya spokesman told reporters here.
Earlier, reporters were told that there would be no live question-and-answer session, and any inquiry were to be submitted through a form and will be replied by email tomorrow.
Besides media personnel, the briefing today was also attended by families of the victims.
Yesterday, Voice370 — the self-styled support group for families of those on board the missing plane — addressed rumours that the Malaysian authorities’ would make a major announcement about the flight, saying they will not accept such declarations from Putrajaya without physical evidence of the plane’s fate.
On March 24 last year, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak confirmed that the missing MAS jetliner MH370 “ended” its journey in the southern Indian Ocean, but stopped short of saying that the Boeing 777 aircraft had crashed into the vast ocean.
