‘We’ve been kept in the dark’: Chinese MH370 relatives complain about lack of information after wreckage discovery

Frustrated Chinese relatives of missing Malaysia Airlines flight 370 passengers have criticised a lack of communication from officials and investigators after plane wreckage of a Boeing 777 was discovered on remote Reunion Island.

An unnamed US official said investigators had a “high degree of confidence” that a photo of the barnacle-encrusted debris that washed ashore on the island, a French department in the western Indian Ocean some 940km off the east coast of Madagascar, is of a wing component unique to the 777 – the same model as the Malaysia Airlines plane. No other 777 is known to have gone missing at sea.

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Last night, Beijing-based relatives reached out to reporters, asking whether the wreckage could be from MH370.

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Steve Wang, whose mother was on board the flight, said relatives had been kept in the dark by authorities and investigators about the fast-moving probe of suspect wreckage.