'My instincts tell me MH370 will be found', a father says 8 years on

SHAH ALAM - 'I miss my son, my instincts tell me the plane will be found' - these are the words of families of Malaysia Airlines (MAS) MH370 Flight crew and passengers who mysteriously went missing eight years ago.

Nurlaila Ngah@Awang, 48, the wife of senior flight attendant, Wan Swaid Wan Ismail hopes the plane will one day be found.

She said her three children are now grown up with the eldest son pursuing studies at a matriculation college while her second son is now sitting for Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia (SPM) this year. Her daughter is in form four.

“I am sad but life goes on, I believe that one day the plane will be found,” said the unit trust consultant.

Nurlaila still misses her husband.

“The children have come to understand the situation, but there is no grave to visit,” she said.

For Selamat, 67, the father of Mohd Khairul Amri, he will wait for the news of his son - that one day he will be found.

“It has been eight years since we lost Khairul," he said feeling subdued.

Khairul, an engineer, was among the 239 crew and passengers of MH370 who were on their way to Beijing, China from Kuala Lumpur.

Selamat says he is not giving up. His instincts tell him that the plane will finally be found.

Kelvin Shim, 47, a husband to MH370’s flight attendant, Christine Tan said, no one from the government or others have updated him on the search and rescue effort of the missing plane.

“I hope the Malaysian government will work proactively, including working together with various parties such as Ocean Infinity, the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) and a group of volunteers from around the world to find the plane," said Shim.

He acknowledges that the government has not abandoned the search for MH370 but "no effort is being made to find the evidence."

For example, in the last two years, he said news of MH370 fragments found on the African coast were made but the status of the investigation remains unknown.

On March 8, 2014, the Malaysia Airlines plane carrying 239 passengers left Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) for Beijing, China but disappeared from the radar screen about two hours after takeoff.

A large-scale search operation involving several countries was carried out in the southern part of the Indian Ocean but the plane or its wreckage was not found.

The disappearance remains the biggest mystery in the aviation industry, and the longest and most expensive in search mission history.

Most recently in February, the search for the plane was reportedly resumed after new technologies to pinpoint the exact location of the plane crash was made available.

The 'hunt' for MH370 is back active after a British aerospace engineer, Richard Godfrey, said he was able to track the Boeing 777 aircraft using new tracking technology, reported MailOnline, Australia.

On Sunday, Transport Minister Datuk Seri Wee Ka Siong once again reiterated the Malaysian government's aspiration to track down the never-forgotten MH370 flight.