Malaysia vows to release report it wrote for UN on flight MH730

Malaysia's prime minister pledged to release a report on flight MH370's disappearance as families of the missing passengers protested outside the country's embassy in Beijing yesterday, venting anger at the information vacuum surrounding the plane.

Najib Razak, whose government has been questioned over its transparency on the Malaysia Airlines flight, promised that a preliminary report submitted to the United Nations' aviation body would be released publicly.

"In the name of transparency, we will release the report next week," he told CNN in an interview late on Thursday.

The news failed to appease families of the Chinese passengers, who made up two-thirds of the 239 people aboard the missing plane, as about 100 of them staged an overnight protest outside the Malaysian embassy in Beijing yesterday.

A family representative said the demonstration was to protest against the Malaysian government's failure to provide high-level official briefings and updates every five days as it had promised.

"We are so tired, as this is the 49th day. We didn't sleep the whole night, but we are still angry. No update has been made and our loved ones are still missing," the representative said.

Anthony Brickhouse, a member of the International Society of Air Safety Investigators, said the report was unlikely to contain anything startling.