(Courtesy CCTV news) — Relatives of those on board Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 say the discovery of the first physical evidence of the plane has brought back the trauma of the aircraft’s disappearance.
“It’s been sleepless nights, and it’s panic, nervous, fear, everything rolled into one, so I don’t know what to call it,” said Jacquita Gonzales, wife of the MH370 inflight supervisor Patrick Francis Gomes.
“The very familiar, overpowering emotions and intense shocks, just like March 8, is just hitting me all over again. But this time, it’s even worse,” said Jennifer Chong, wife of an MH370 passenger Chong Ling Tan.
The next of kin want the search to continue until the main fuselage, black boxes and hopefully their loved ones’ remains are found.
“I can grieve already, because … I know that my husband is no longer around. But, not until he comes home, then I can have a proper send-off for him and have a proper goodbye. So, at the moment, no, I need more,” Gonzales said.
“I do not wish another MH370 to ever happen again, and no-one should go through the pain that I have suffered. 239 precious lives is lost, and it will [be] lost in vain if we did not learn from it,” Chong said.
Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak announced on Thursday that experts have confirmed the aircraft debris discovered on Reunion Island belongs to flight MH370.
The debris, identified as part of a Boeing 777 wing, was discovered on Reunion Island on July 29. Prior to the discovery, a massive surface and underwater hunt had failed to find evidence of the plane.
In one of the greatest mysteries in aviation history, flight MH370 went missing on March 8, 2014 en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people of 14 nationalities on board. (China Central Television News)