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Fight MH370 - Angry families reject report

Families of those missing on Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 have rejected a report issued on the first anniversary of the plane's disappearance. The Interim report gives no new clues as to what happened to the plane. One relative described it as "useless."

It does reveal that an underwater locator beacon battery had expired a year earlier, but it is unclear whether this affected the search. The airliner was flying from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing when it vanished. Malaysia and Australia say they remain committed to finding the missing plane. As families of the 239 passengers and crew held remembrance ceremonies on Sunday, some expressed their frustration with the report.

It contains masses of technical information about the missing aircraft, its maintenance record, the background of the crew, and the various air traffic control and military radar tracking records of the plane, says the BBC's Jonathan Head.

"We don't accept the announcement from Malaysia on January 19 that said the event was an accident," said the woman in the Malaysian capital, Kuala Lumpur, who did not give her name. Tan Tuan Kee, the father of missing passenger Tan Chong Ling, told the BBC he believed his son was still alive. "I'm concerned that our government will stop searching for the aircraft," he added.

Earlier this year, the Malaysian government declared flight MH370 to have been lost with all on board, in a move it said was necessary to start processing compensation claims for the families.

My opinion is that if the government knows any information about the plane and why it disappeared then the families of the victims have a right to know what has happened to their loved ones, so that whether they have sadly died or are alive their families could finally be at peace knowing the truth about the disappearance of the plane and those inside.