missing. rodney burroughs mother told the morning bulletin newspaper there is always hope though her hope is fading fast. drew kun was returning home to beijing after working in malaysia. he s a popular stuntsman. known as hard-working and sincere his fans have left hundreds of comments online hoping for his safe return. shandrika sharma was on her way to a food an agriculture conference in among goin mongol. her mother told reporters she s praying her daughter is still alive. translator: my daughter will come back. she has to come back. two indonesian brothers were on board the plane. hare and perry sudaya. both have young children asking why their fathers haven t come home. a family member who didn t want to show his face spoke to cnn. translator: there s a feeling of loss.
wouldn t fly because they re frightening but they re not. reporter: michael gold goldfarb says if the faa thought it was significant enough they would have grounded the fleet. does that mean this air directive and history of this air directive or warning is irrelevant? it s very relevant. we don t know if malaysia airline had completed that repair. reporter: the ceo couldn t answer if flight 370 was checked for that issue. with this specific plane i will have to check on the record. let s just say malaysian airlines did not do the required inspection. does that change things at all? it only adds another piece of the puzzle. it only tells investigators that going in theory there may be a structural problem needs to be run to ground. renee marsh, cnn, washington. we ll have more on the missing flight. learning more about the passengers on board. we ll tell you their stories coming up. also deadly explosion, raging fire cause, chaos in new
throughout the gulf of thailand. so i don t know exactly where it is, but overall this is not very deep water. i m actually watching cnn to try to get a better view of where this thing is. so you re actually watching cnn to look at those images to try to get a better view of them, to find out exactly where they are. that s correct. but i should say we have very smart people here. so myself just being the spokesperson, i personally am looking at chooat cnn. but we have other people reviewing all the information. commander marks, a lot of people appreciate very much what you re doing right now. we wish you the best to all the people under your command as well. thank you. thank you. up next, how confusion all this can be. this is one of the satellite images released by the chinese today. coming up we ll show you a photo over the weekend that looks very similar but dismissed by officials. also tonight the families of the miss, seeking answers. we are learning more about those on
the transponder, the pilot can turn off in the cockpit. that s a safety measure, i m told, because he has to be able to turn it off in case it was short circuiting and wouldn t bring down other systems. they have that capability to turn it off. the other systems it s not like there s a switch in the cockpit to shut all the other systems off. to get no data from that plane there had to be something catastrophe you can and unusual. but again one of those places where you got a lot of questions but no answers. jim clancy, we re now hearing from the director general of the malaysian department of civil aviation. he tells cnn that his agency has not we ve not received or even seen these chinese satellite images. how is that possible? reporter: it may be a surprise to them. that s a great question. i don t have the answer. because middle of the night here, i don t quite understand why he wouldn t have them. it depends on we ve got a huge chinese delegation here that would be handling t
information. when it is not the final closure, i think any ray of hope, even however remote or however improbable, many of these people will still hold onto it. reporter: holding on and hoping their days of waiting in limbo will be over soon. pamela brown, cnn, washington. a lot to get to tonight now that there seems to be more for searchers to go on. let s check in first with cnn s david mckenzie who joins us from beijing. so these satellite images, what can you tell us about snem do we have my dewhy the chinese government released them now? reporter: that s a question i want answered. there are two things that trouble me. one is why this was released now. the second is, really why are we seeing these images that weren t shared necessarily with the malaysian authorities? they say they took these photographs from satellite, high definition of these three large objects which were very close to the tracking path when that plane vanished over the sea on saturday. it is now several