This was the Prime Minister of malaysia saying all lives were lost and clearly these families are very upset by that, saying they want an apollogy for that announcement. They said they wanted to meet members of boeing, they wanted to meet the technical staff to find out whether or not there was a problem with the aircraft. They said the fact that they havent been able to meet with any of the technical staff makes them think something could have been wrong with the aircraft. The message is they wanted to see evidence and wanted people to talk to them about what happened because they did not think they had enough information. Right. Theyre all wearing prayer for mh370 tshirts. So obviously the malaysian officials knew that these group of relatives were coming. What has been their response, if any, and do they plan to meet personally with them . Reporter you can only assume they will be meeting with them. It would not be good if they decided not to. They have been with families in the pas
Theres only about a week left. Because of that critical deadline an australian ship carrying a u. S. Pinger locater and underseas equipment leaves for the search zone shortly and is expected to arrive there thursday. Meantime in malaysia, families of those on board flight 370 voiced their frustrations with the way the crisis was being handled during an emotional news conference. Paula hancock is in kuala lumpur. It was an impassioned press conference in this kuala lumpur hotel. The chinese relatives of the passengers of mh 370 arrived hours earlier at the airport sunday morning. They said they had to come to malaysia because they werent getting the answers they wanted from beijing. They were wearing tshirts that read pray for mh 370, pray for return safely. We want evidence, want the truth, want our families saying they are sad and desperate. His relatives said we want malaysia to apologize for inform is a that caused confusion which delayed the Search Mission and we want the malaysian
Many of their family members stage add protest today in the streets of beijing, demanding more answers from the malaysian government. Other families in ma lalaysia voiced concerns right to the transportation minister. He will not give false hope and will continue the search as long as there are love ones to be found. Bring in our panelist here in new york, tim taylor, operations specialist. Tim on the end, a cnn aviation analyst and former boeing 77 captain and justin green, an aviation attorney and former military pilot. From phoenix, cnn aviation analyst and retired pilot jim tillman. Lets talk about these items and the search area. One thing that really impressed me was the fact that two of the search items, or two of the objects found today were three minutes apart by air, and that gives you a sense of scope of how large this area is. Is that what were going to be seeing . These search areas picked up in a radius so large and significant that youre going to be, have to figure out w
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