CRI听力:MH370: Relatives in China Skeptical about Debris Linked to Missing Plane

Chinese relatives of the passengers have been reacting with both grief and frustration after Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak announced a piece of wreckage found on the Indian Ocean of Reunion last week is from the missing plane.

But many of the relatives of the Chinese vicitms say they're not happy with the answers they've been given by the Airline.

Yang Jinbo from Liaoning lost both his wife and daughter in the tragedy.

"We request Malaysian Airlines to fulfil their promises. Last year they told us that they will fly us to wherever the first signs of debris of MH370 were found. Secondly, we need to see the video of the boarding of the plane itself. We were only given the airplane ticket as proof that our relatives were on board. But we need real evidence in order to fully believe that our loved ones were on that plane."

The relatives are also criticising the airline's choice of using a simple text message to inform them of the latest information after 515 days without any news.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, who had been attending an ASEAN regional meeting in Kuala Lumpur, has used part of his time there to call on Malaysian authorities be open about what they know.

"We suggest that Malaysia should first explain to the next-of-kin on what's going to happen next. I think on this matter it is important that we care about their feelings, the struggle that they're going through."

Malaysian authorities have come under fire for their handling of the disappearance of MH370, with many accusing the goverment of being both unresponsive and uncooperative.

Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 disappeared while on a fight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing in the early-morning hours of March 8th of last year.

Of the 239 people on board, nearly two-thirds of them are Chinese.

Meanwhile, Malaysian Transport Minister Liow Tiong Lai has confirmed more plane parts have been found washed up on the Indian Ocean island of Reunion, which is located just east of Madasgascar.

The new items include pieces of windows, seat cushions and aluminum.

They have also been sent to a French military testing lab in Toulouse for further analysis.

Their discovery some 4-thousand kilometers from where the search for the plane has been focused is raising questions and concerns among the families of the victims, with some suggesting the search area should be changed.

However, Judith Zielke, chief coordinator of the Joint Agency overseeing the search off the west coast of Australia, says the discovery of debris on Reunion Island is consistent with the drift modeling conducted by experts.

"Look, the overall search area is 1.1 million square kilometres, that's an area around the size of South Australia, so it is huge. Our target area is 120,000 square kilometres within that and we've searched over half of that area to date. So, we're making good progress.

While certian materials of a downed airliner can float and drift in the ocean, heavier materials, including an airliner's flight-data recorders, cannot.

Discovery of the flight-data recorders on MH370 will be critical in determining what has led to the biggest mystery in aviation history.

For Cri I'm Poornima Weerasekara