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 8 March 2014 and became the world’s greatest aviation mystery.
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. She was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2016 for the second time in her life, but it has since gone into remission.“This second time, no. But I had a lot of family members around, my friends, my children, and now my MH370 families... so that kept us going.”
Shim, a father of two, said the group helped him to adjust to life as a single parent. His wife, Christine Tan, was a member of the MH370 crew.“Emotionally, that’s been a good support and help to us, especially since the plane has not been found,” he added.In early 2017, Malaysia, China and Australia called off a two-year, $144 million search in the southern Indian Ocean after finding no trace of the plane.
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