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Bringing them home: why China’s MH370 families are still searching for the missing a decade on
- 150 Chinese nationals were on the Malaysia Airlines flight when it disappeared from radars about two hours after leaving Kuala Lumpur
- For those left behind, the need to find their children, grandchildren and parents is as urgent as ever
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Jiang Hui has had many brushes with death in his various expeditions to the African coast to scour for debris from missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.
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Once, when searching a beach on Réunion, a French island in the Indian Ocean, Jiang narrowly avoided treading on a venomous snake.
Another time, he was swamped and battered by huge waves as he tried to wade through chest-high water to board a boat.
But that all faded when he found a piece of honeycomb-shaped debris in Madagascar.
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It was December 2016 and he was part of a trip organised by Voice 370, a support group for MH370 families. Besides three Chinese nationals, there were relatives from France and Malaysia, as well as American explorer Blaine Gibson.
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After four connecting flights, a helicopter ride, a long drive along the dunes and a thorough survey of the coastline, Jiang spotted the debris on a beach littered with bottles and flip-flops.
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