MH370 crash: Engineer’s family pleads to be left alone

Dearly missed: Tan and his Taiwanese wife Chuang leave behind two sons, aged 14 and 12. Their eldest son was on board the flight.

IPOH: Family members of civil engineer Tan Ah Meng pleaded to be left alone, saying his elderly parents will be adversely affected by the presence of reporters outside their home.

When reporters called to the family from outside the house in Kampung Baru Kanthan in Chemor, one of Tan’s ­brothers came out and said the family was grieving and did not wish to speak to anyone.