KUALA LUMPUR, March 25 ― As more pieces surface in the jigsaw puzzle over the mysterious disappearance of Flight MH370, some of the family of those aboard are coming to terms with the conclusion drawn by the authorities two years ago.
Jacquita Gonzales, whose husband Patrick Francis was inflight supervisor on Flight MH370, was overcome with emotion when official analysis said two pieces found on Mozambique's shores were “almost certainly” from the plane.
She said she will accept the plane's fate if the authorities can verify the wreckage found as originating from the aircraft.
“If the plane is not found, then we can't find out the truth or get closure.
“(But) if all pieces are confirmed to be from Flight MH370, we have to accept the inevitable: That our loved ones are where they say the plane is,” she was quoted saying by local daily New Straits Times (NST).
“This brings despair, as all hope is gone. Are we finally going to find our loved ones?” she said, adding that she hoped authorities would search for potentially more aircraft wreckage from the same area where debris was spotted.
Another MH370 kin, Elaine Chew Oai Poh, reportedly said she was numb after the Mozambique debris discovery and wanted full certainty.
“I only want to know if the debris found is 100 per cent from Flight MH370. I do not want to hear 'high possibility' or 'almost certain'.
“Are we even getting close to knowing what happened? There are times I wish the debris was from Flight MH370, and there are times I wish it was not. I feel emptiness in everything I do,” the wife of flight steward Tan Sze Hiang was quoted saying by NST.
On March 8, 2014, Flight MH370 was carrying 239 people from Kuala Lumpur when it vanished from radars.
On January 29, 2015, Putrajaya declared Flight MH370 an accident under international aviation regulations, and all 239 people on board the flight were presumed dead.
Other pieces of aircraft wreckage were found at the La Reunion island and South Africa last July and this March.
