Relatives: Search for Malaysian flight should resume

BEIJING— Relatives of Chinese passengers who were aboard the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 said Friday they refuse to accept the latest report on the plane’s disappearance four years ago and demand the search be restarted.

About 100 relatives gathered in Beijing to hear chief investigator Kok Soo Chon discuss the report prepared by a 19-member international team.

It reiterated Malaysia’s assertion that the plane was deliberately diverted and flown for over seven hours after severing communications. But it said the cause of the disappearance cannot be determined until the wreckage and the plane’s black boxes are found.

Some relatives held up banners and chanted that they would “never give up before seeing our next of kin.”

Jiang Hui, whose mother was aboard the flight, said she was unhappy with the report’s methods.

“As we see it, this is not a sufficient report in respects to the conclusions, the details of the information and the measures and technical tools that Malaysia applied, as well as the way Malaysia implemented their obligations,” Jiang said.

The report said there was no evidence of abnormal behavior or stress in the two pilots that could lead them to hijack the plane, but all passengers were also cleared by police and had no pilot training.