 KUALA LUMPUR, March 11 — Four Malaysia Airlines (MAS) employees bore the brunt of anger from frustrated families in China as yet another day dawned without new leads on the missing flight MH370. The MAS officials could only dodge the onslaught as family members of the 138 Chinese passengers lobbed water bottles in their direction, unable to deliver any news on the fate of the Beijng-bound jumbo jet that carried their loved ones among its 239-people load, the New York Times (NYT) reported last night. “All Malaysians are liars!” one man yelled in Chinese, the English-language daily reported, before adding, “Do you know what ‘liars’ means?” “Tell him in English,” the Chinese man shouted at the one woman among the four MAS employees, whom NYT said was the interpreter. The other three men were MAS senior managers and included Ignatius Ong Ming Choy, head of a MAS subsidiary budget airline, Firefly. NYT reported that none of the MAS officials responded to the Chinese man as it was unclear if the interpreter translated the accusation. Throughout the day, MAS staff — many whom were volunteers — but identifiable by their bright blue vests had offered bottled water and helped the families of the Chinese passengers clear the necessary red tape brought on by the disaster: passport, visa and hotel forms in a hotel room in Beijing. The first water bottle flew towards MAS staff after Ong asked who wished to fly to Kuala Lumpur and who wished to stay behind in Beijing, NYT reported. Today is the third day since MH370 vanished from radar in the early hours of Saturday, March 8. The Boeing 777-200 aircraft left Kuala Lumpur and was about 40 minutes into its journey to Beijing when it vanished from the skies with 239 people on board. The aircraft was last seen on radar about 120 nautical miles from Kota Baru on Malaysia’s east coast. Three days into its mission, a multi-country search involving 34 aircraft and 40 ships has yet to find the jumbo jet. Intense speculation is swirling around the presence of two passengers who were on the flight with stolen passports. Malaysian authorities say they cannot rule out terrorism as a cause for the airliner’s disappearance.
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