Mh370: Families Say Search Suspension For Malaysian Plane 'irresponsible'

[mikey4444]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-38647365

I have some sympathy with people who have lost loved ones in air-crashes, but, dear God......this happened 3 years ago !

What on earth is the point in continuing to look for the ruddy plane ?

[ummmm]

It doesn't sound like you have sympathy.

People need to know what happened so they can deal with it and move on instead of being in limbo.

[mikey4444]

There is no need for anybody to be in limbo. Their relatives are dead and not living on some secret island somewhere in the South China Seas.

As soon as they accept that they are not going to come back, the sooner they can move on.

[-Talbot-]

Yeah why would you want answers 3 years later ... so your child or grandchild or brother or sister got killed ... get over it.

[dannyk13]

The search has been suspended so one would presume that if any further clues come to light it will be resumed.

[EDDIE51]

^ As said it has only been suspended, after 3 years with no traces it is pointless to continue. Relatives have to accept that the passengers were killed in the crash and are somewhere 1,000s of ft under the deepest part of the world's ocean.

[Patsy33]

So would I want answers too. Doesn't matter how many years have gone by! I've always been very suspicious if this incident.......

[jno]

I fear you're right, mikey. Some searches are worth pursuing, but this one could go on till the end of time, and the bodies, which is what the families want found, are at the bottom of the sea and nobody knows even which part of the world they're in.

[ummmm]

Mikey - like any missing person do you think the family give up hope?

[fiction-factory]

>As soon as they accept that they are not going to come back, the sooner they can move on

I'm not sure I agree with you on that one mikey. Should we have said that to, for example, the families of Hillsborough victims 3 years after their deaths or was it right to continue the search for the truth so the cause could be found, lessons learnt and justice perhaps be done if there had been any failings or criminal acts

[fiction-factory]

^ However I can see that it may be a fruitless search- the area of sea runs into many millions of square miles and the oceans are very deep in those parts

[EDDIE51]

Possibly a few words of appreciation to the Australian Navy may be in order.
They have spent millions of A$ and 3 years on a search with no result and little thanks! The flight and crash had nothing at all to do with Australia but they just got on with the search!

[mikey4444]

Eddie....my point exactly, and who has been paying Aussie Navy these last 3 years ?

[ummmm]

Mikey - none of that matters when you lose a loved one. You just want them found.

Grieving people are not always practical in their thinking and understandably so. Show a bit of compassion.

[mikey4444]

Ummm....in this case, 3 years compassion seems enough.

Unless there is new evidence, than these bodies are never going to be found. After three years, enough is enough.

[-Talbot-]

And how long should the search for the truth about Madeleine McCann go on, mikey?

[jno]

ummmm, it's one thing for people just to be missing; they could very easily be alive and well. But in this case we know what happened to them - we just haven't the least idea where. If it were me, yes, I'd have given up hope. I don't know how families felt during WW2 when told their sailor sons were lost at sea, but I imagine they just had to accept it.

[ummmm]

My thoughts exactly, Talbot, and Ben Needham!!

Would you just tell the families 'accept they are dead and stop looking for the ruddy children'?

[ummmm]

I think it's Mikey's wordage that evokes a reaction.

[Peter Pedant]

// It doesn't sound like you have sympathy.

heartless prat ! //

yeah you baby killing so and so !
you presumably have zeroed in a like a bean counting bank manager on the £160m already spent looking at the ocean's bottomm and thought
1) that is around £500k to find each dead body - and that is a lodda moolah!
2) the 160m or excess really could be better spent on well live people

yeah I did as well

You can link it with - if you like
I think the inquiries on historical abuse by dead people ad their astronomical cost is well worth the money so long as I dont have to pay it but someone else does !

what about spending £160m on refugees and no whining ?
now there's thought !

er Mikey I dont really think you go around kiliing babies
other people not you and I on AB are often so gullible