Where is the Malaysia Airlines flight?

Bangkok. Malaysia Grace S. Nathan He still can't cope with the loss of his mother, who was aboard Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, which marks the tenth anniversary of her disappearance tomorrow, with only a few clues that it may have gone down in the Indian Ocean.

Nathan, one of the spokesmen for the families affected by MH370, said in a video conference interview with EFE that he felt he had been asking himself unanswered questions about his mother Ann Daisy and the other 238 passengers all these years. MH370. The Boeing 777 disappeared on March 8, 2014.

“It's hard to turn the page when there isn't a single answer (…) We don't know why the plane turned, we don't know where the plane is, we don't know what happened and we don't know why it happened. Ten years ago I asked myself these questions. I still do it,” says the 36-year-old Malaysian in Kuala Lumpur with her husband, a Spanish national, and two young children.

New search

Last Sunday, Nathan attended a memorial service It is the 10th anniversary of the disappearance of MH370 in Subang Jaya near Kuala LumpurOther relatives have joined the search for answers about MH370, one of aviation's greatest mysteries.

The next day Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said this His country is prepared to reopen the investigation if “conclusive” evidence is found, a blow to the families' hopes.

“I think there is a chance that the search will resume,” says the Malaysian, adding that Ocean Infinity, which conducted the last inspection of the plane in 2018, is ready to resume it.

Despite the good news, Nathan admits his mood swings daily and remembers the first days and weeks after flight MH370 disappeared 40 minutes after takeoff from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.

Her mother had planned to visit her husband in China a week ago but had to delay the trip and boarded a Boeing 777.

Nathan, who was then studying law in England, took a flight to Kuala Lumpur when his father told him that something had happened to the plane.

“I had no internet and it was the longest 14 hours of my life because I didn't know what happened,” explains the Malaysian, who currently works as a criminal lawyer in his country.

Suffering

In the days, weeks and months that followed, Nathan, his father and sister, as well as relatives of the other passengers on board, lived with the agony of a lack of information and massive international media attention.

Thanks to analyzes by military radars and Inmarsat satellites, some details about what happened with MH370 are beginning to emerge little by little.

According to the official investigation, someone jammed the communications system and the plane flew for about six hours until it entered Vietnamese airspace and turned southwest, crossing the Malaysian peninsula and crashing into the Indian Ocean.

Theories about what happened range from one of the pilots deliberately shooting down the plane to a technical fault or it being hijacked.

Nathan prefers to stick to evidence and verified information, such as pieces of the plane found in some places in the Indian Ocean, although the body of the device has not been found in two extensive search operations.

last words

The Malaysian lawyer and other family members maintain contact through a support group called Voice 370, which spreads information on social networks and organizes events to remember the tragedy.

However, he admits that he sometimes talks about his mother in the present tense, as if she's gone on “vacation” and can't assume she's not here now.

He clearly remembers his mother's last words, “I love you,” which are not often said in Asia.

“We didn't verbalize it. Maybe you could write it on a Christmas card or a birthday card or something, but he told me he loved me, and I remember, oh, this is weird, but I also told him 'I love you,' and I'm glad I did because that was the last conversation we ever had. ,” Nathan recalled.