Today marks the tenth anniversary of the Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 crash. A disaster that, even today, remains a mystery.
The relatives of the almost 230 passengers on board the aircraft, which took off from Kuala Lumpur on 8 March 2014 towards Beijing and never reached its destination, gathered in the Chinese capital to ask for the truth. Yes, because what happened on that flight, which vanished into thin air from radar, has never been definitively ascertained. For this reason, the relatives of the missing have launched a new appeal to the Chinese authorities to continue the search interrupted more than seven years ago.
A man, Li Shuce, who had a son on the plane, told the media that he remained "hopeful". «I believe our son is still alive. We look forward to his return soon,” he added.
In the afternoon, more than a dozen people, including Li, gathered at an intersection near the Malaysian embassy in Beijing, whose street was guarded by a line of police officers.
Mourners consoled each other before shouting: "Malaysia, return our loved ones!" A group of protesters, one of them carrying a letter addressed to Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, were allowed to pass the police cordon and approach the embassy, returning almost 20 minutes later without speaking to journalists who were there. in a cordoned off area nearby.
After the plane disappeared in 2014, an Australian-led search covering 120,000 square kilometers in the Indian Ocean found almost no trace of the plane, picking up only a few pieces of debris.
The operation was suspended in January 2017. The disappearance of the plane has long been the subject of theories, from the most credible to the most outlandish, including that of a deliberate act by veteran pilot Zaharie Ahmad Shah. Is he the one who made him sink into the sea? Did others hijack it? And where?
