Flight MH370 10 years on: Malaysians unite in grief to remember the 239 on board missing plane

“I remember 10 years ago after 10 hours in the search for MH370, I was still following the updates on my hospital bed … even as I was getting wheeled into the labour room,” said one Aziza Berahim in a post on Facebook on Friday.

“Suddenly my daughter is now 10 years old. It’s so sad, I hope the families of the victims will get to the truth about what happened sooner or later.”

Families of those on board continue to be haunted by the disappearance, lives lived for a decade in constant uncertainty.

“Now a decade later, I still ask myself the same questions. We still don’t know what happened,” said Grace Nathan, a Malaysian who organised a memorial for the victims on Sunday and whose 56-year-old mother Anne Daisy was a passenger on the plane.

Air traffic controllers lost contact with the Boeing 777 jetliner not long after it crossed over into Vietnamese airspace.

“Good night, Malaysian three seven zero,” was the last message transmitted by the pilots before the plane went missing.

Investigators said it was around then that the plane’s transponder – responsible for sending vital location data – was manually switched off.

Satellite tracking — based on seven distinct pings each spread an hour apart and believed to have come from the plane — traced a route that ended in a remote region in the largely uncharted Indian Ocean some 2,000km west of Perth, Australia.

Transport Minister Anthony Loke promised the families of those on the missing plane that Malaysia’s government was “steadfast in our resolve to locate MH370” and that “money is no issue” in plans to commission a fresh search by US-based deep-sea survey firm Ocean Infinity.

“And I stand before you and make this promise, that I will do everything possible to gain cabinet’s approval