(Eagle News) — Relatives of people aboard the missing Malaysia airlines flight MH370 urged governments on Thursday (July 21) to step up the hunt for the aircraft, a day before a meeting where ministers could decide to call off the search.
Malaysian, Chinese and Australian ministers will meet in Kuala Lumpur today to discuss the future of the search for MH370, which disappeared during a flight from the Malaysian capital to Beijing in march 2014, carrying 239 people.
Almost 180 million Australian dollars or 135 million US dollars has been spent on an underwater search spanning 120,000 square kilometers in the southern Indian ocean, the most expensive in aviation history.
Jacquita Gonzales, the wife of MH370 steward Patrick Gomes, said China and Malaysia had not contributed enough to the search effort, which is coordinated by the Australian transport safety bureau.
The three governments had previously agreed that unless any new credible evidence arose, they would not extend the search which was originally scheduled to end in June but has been hampered by bad weather and is expected to resume in December.
