‘We’ve not said goodbye at all’: grieving MH370 families lean on each other for support and wait for answers

Starved of information and struggling to get on with their lives, the families have turned to each other for support

In 2017, Malaysia, China and Australia called off a two-year search in the Indian Ocean after finding no trace of the plane

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The Malaysian government has said it would consider resuming a search if new evidence came to light. Photo: Reuters

Published: 5:51pm, 2 Mar 2019Updated: 6:13pm, 3 Mar 2019

Five years ago, their loved ones boarded a plane and vanished.

The group of Malaysians meet about once a month - usually at a coffee shop or a home in Kuala Lumpur - to support each other and try to keep missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 in the public eye.

Their relatives were among the 239 people onboard the Boeing 777 when it vanished en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8, 2014 and became the world’s greatest aviation mystery.

Scraps of aircraft debris have washed up on the east African coastline, but two underwater searches in the southern Indian Ocean proved fruitless, leaving few clues as to what happened.

A woman leaves a message of support for the passengers of the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370. Photo: Reuters

Starved for information and struggling to resume their lives, the families have come to lean on each other for support, said Jacquita Gonzales, whose husband Patrick Gomes was MH370’s inflight supervisor.