THE family of a missing MH370 passenger is hoping the report commissioned by the Malaysian government, which is to be released tomorrow,  will answer three questions surrounding the disappearance of the plane.

Jiang Hui, whose mother was on the flight, told The Malaysian Insight there were inconsistencies and lack of clarity in the Malaysian government’s statements on the missing MAS flight.

Jiang said he wants the Malaysian government to answer three questions.

1. Were the agencies involved in the early search efforts guilty of misconduct? Why did they waste  eight days searching in in the South China Sea?

2. When will the satellite’s raw data be publicised?

3. When is the next search, and will there be a reward offered to those with information on MH370?

Jiang said the family had yet to find closure even though it had been more than four years since MH370 vanished.

“The feeling of loss does not only surface on the anniversaries of the missing plane.

“During the holidays, when I see other families hold a reunion or when my child asks where his grandmother is, or when I see someone that looks like my mother, I feel the pain,” he told The Malaysian Insight.

Jiang’s 62-year-old mother, Jiang Cuiyun, was one of the 239 people on board the MH370 jetliner that vanished en route to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur in March 2014.

The Malaysian ICAO Annex 13 Safety Investigation Team will release the MH370 safety investigation report at the Transport Ministry tomorrow.

The Transport Ministry is arranging a special briefing in Beijing on August 3 for the Chinese families, said Lim Swee Kuan, press secretary to the transport minister He said ministry officials will lead the briefing there.

The families of the missing passengers have previously expressed anger at Malaysia’s handling of the tragedy, including the way reports and news updates were disseminated.

They complained that they were only informed minutes before or at the same time as the public.

The Malaysian government, Malaysia Airlines Berhad and local agencies involved in the search of the plane were severely criticised for poor communication and insensitivity in their dealings with the missing passengers’ kin.

Jiang said he could not accept that the search for the plane has stopped.

“There must be some cover up, because Malaysia treats information onMH370 as a state secret.

“Families will only be briefed after making a court application.”

The families of three MH370 passengers on July 24 filed for a judicial review to declassify documents on the missing plane placed under the Official Secrets Act 1972.

Jiang said he continued to have hope the plan would be found, and that the government would persist in its search efforts.

“As long as the search continues, we will wait, but we cannot accept that the search is stopped.

“My hope is that they continue searching. I think the government is halfway through the search and I hope the government completes it.

MH370 had turned back while over the South China Sea, south of Vietnam, about 38 minutes after take-off, but had lost contact with the control tower.

The plane was last detected in a series of satellite ‘pings’, by which time it was believed to be over the southern Indian Ocean.

In January last year, a US$155 million (RM610 million) search for the Boeing 777 in the hostile waters of the southern Indian Ocean, off the coast of western Australia, was called off. It was paid for by the Malaysian, Chinese and Australian governments.

In January, private US firm Ocean Infinity resumed the search over a narrowed-down area on the understanding it would only be paid if the plane was found. The search ended in June without new findings.

In the last four years, parts of the plane identified by the numbers on them have been found off the eastern coast of Africa and on Reunion Island, a French territory in the Indian Ocean. – July 29, 2018.