Relatives of Flight MH370 passengers promise reward for any debris found

Two days after distraught families and relations of ill-fated Flight MH370 carrying 239 passengers and crew, said they are taking the search to locate the plane into their own hands, relatives have promised financial reward for anyone who finds a piece of debris from the Malaysia Airlines plane.

The plane which disappeared on its way from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8, 2014, is believed to have crashed in the southern Indian Ocean.

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The announcement was made when a group of relatives traveled to the island nation off the southeast coast of Africa in the hope that residents will scour some coastal areas of Madagascar, where possible parts of Flight MH370 washed ashore.

Meanwhile, a Malaysian official investigating the disappearance of the Boeing 777 was in Madagascar’s capital, Antananarivo, to pick up debris that has already been found and will be analyzed to see if it came from the aircraft.

“The more debris we find, the easier it will be to find where the crash happened,” said Ghislain Wattrelos, a Frenchman who lost his wife and two of his three children when the plane deviated from its flight path from Malaysia to Beijing and vanished on March 8, 2014.

 

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