MH370 families prepared to fund separate search

Families of the passengers aboard missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 have launched a 'conditional' campaign to privately fund a search for the aircraft.

Flight MH370, with 239 people on board, went missing en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8, 2014 and is believed to have crashed into the Indian Ocean west of Australia.

Australia, Malaysia and China called off a joint two-year underwater search for the aircraft in January.

Grace Nathan, a Malaysian lawyer involved in the effort said the families hoped to raise US$15 million, but: "We won't start fundraising until we're sure that the governments are not going to resume the search and until the current (search) data has been fully reviewed and analysed." 

The three governments have said they will resume the search if any solid evidence on the whereabouts of the plane emerges.

Malaysian Transport minister Liow Tiong Laie also says his government has signed agreements with some countries along the East African coastline (where debris has been found) to co-ordinate further searches on the ground.

MH370 families prepared to fund separate search

Families of the passengers aboard missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 have launched a 'conditional' campaign to privately fund a search for the aircraft.

Flight MH370, with 239 people on board, went missing en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8, 2014 and is believed to have crashed into the Indian Ocean west of Australia.

Australia, Malaysia and China called off a joint two-year underwater search for the aircraft in January.

Grace Nathan, a Malaysian lawyer involved in the effort said the families hoped to raise US$15 million, but: "We won't start fundraising until we're sure that the governments are not going to resume the search and until the current (search) data has been fully reviewed and analysed." 

The three governments have said they will resume the search if any solid evidence on the whereabouts of the plane emerges.

Malaysian Transport minister Liow Tiong Laie also says his government has signed agreements with some countries along the East African coastline (where debris has been found) to co-ordinate further searches on the ground.