Families of MH370 passengers issue emotional plea to continue open-ended search

A Malaysian woman looks out at a Malaysia Airlines plane on the tarmac at Kuala Lumpur International Airport.PHOTO: AFP

KUALA LUMPUR: Families of passengers on missing flight MH370 on Thursday issued an emotional plea to the authorities to keep searching for the missing plane beyond an expected mid-year completion date, for the sake of distressed relatives and future aviation safety.

An Australian-led Indian Ocean hunt for wreckage from the Malaysia Airlines plane is expected to finish scouring a designated deep-sea zone by July, and the authorities plan to end the search if nothing is found.