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CAAC executive: search for MH370 is ongoing

china.org.cn / chinagate.cn by Wu Jin, March 5, 2015 Adjust font size:

The search for the missing Malaysian flight MH370 is continuing, revealed Li Jiaxiang, executive of the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC), at the opening ceremony of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) on March 4, 2015.

"We are not giving up as new information pops up every now and then," said Li in an interview with Xinhuanet.com at the beginning of the annual conference of the top political advisory body.

According to Li, the CAAC is still in touch with the Malaysian and Australian authorities, in the hope that the missing plane can eventually be located.

A total of 239 passengers and crew members onboard, including 154 Chinese, lost contact when Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 heading from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to Beijing, disappeared from the radar of the ground control system on March 8, 2014.

On Jan. 29, 2015, Azharuddin Abdul Rahman, chief of the Malaysian Aviation Authority announced that all 239 people onboard have been presumed dead.

On the announcement, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang sent his condolences to the families of the passengers and expressed his concerns to the Malaysian authorities about the ongoing search of the missing plane.

"I hope the Malaysian authorities will fulfill their commitments to push forward the investigation, offer compensation and assistance to the affected families, and in particular, try hard to find the missing plane and the people onboard," Li said.