Screaming family members of passengers on the missing Malaysia Airlines jet were forcibly removed from a hotel room after invading a press conference which was about to start, accusing the Malaysian government of failing to work hard enough to find the plane.
Half a dozen people held up banners blaming the government of inaction as airline officials desperately tried to resume order.
But one women screamed: ‘You are traitors to us… you have let us down. Tell us the truth! We want the truth!’
Two women, believed to be relatives of passengers on board the missing plane, were forcibly removed from the news conference and taken to another room, Sky News has reported.
Investigators meanwhile searching for the missing Malaysia Airlines plane have discounted reports the plane may have been sighted over the Maldives.
A woman is carried out by security officials after she tried to protest before a press conference at a hotel in Sepang, Malaysia.
Several residents of Kudahuvadhoo, one of the more remote atolls in the Indian Ocean island chain nation, had reported seeing a low-flying aircraft on the morning of March 8, when Flight MH370 disappeared en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.
Malaysia’s Acting Transport Minister Hishammuddin Hussein told a daily news conference today that the reports had been investigated by police in the Maldives and were determined to be untrue.
The anger of the Chinese group reflected the fury of other relatives in Beijing who have threatened to go on a hunger strike unless more details about the search for the flight were immediately released.
During the press conference Hishammuddin said he ‘fully understands’ the frustration of the relatives of the missing passengers and said a high-level delegation was being sent to Beijing to speak to the families.
Meanwhile, investigators probing the disappearance of a Malaysia Airlines jetliner with 239 people on board believe it most likely flew into the southern Indian Ocean, a source close to the investigation said on Wednesday.
No wreckage has been found from Flight MH370, which vanished from air traffic control screens off Malaysia’s east coast at 1:21 a.m. local time on March 8, less than an hour after taking off from Kuala Lumpur bound for Beijing.
Chinese family members of missing Malaysia Airlines MH370 passenger are escorted away from the media outside the media conference area at a hotel near Kuala Lumpur International Airport.
Relatives of passengers on the missing Malaysia Airlines plane were reportedly forcibly removed from a hotel room where a press conference was about to start.
The half a dozen people held up banners blaming the government of inaction as airline officials desperately tried to resume order.
An unprecedented search for the Boeing 777-200ER is under way involving 26 nations in two vast search ‘corridors’: one arcing north overland from Laos towards the Caspian Sea, the other curving south across the Indian Ocean from west of Indonesia’s Sumatra island to west of Australia.
‘The working assumption is that it went south, and furthermore that it went to the southern end of that corridor,’ said the source.
The view is based on the lack of any evidence from countries along the northern corridor that the plane entered their airspace, and the failure to find any trace of wreckage in searches in the upper part of the southern corridor.
China, which is leading the northern corridor search with Kazakhstan, said it had not yet found any sign of the aircraft crossing into its territory.
