Ten years ago, Sarah Bajc woke up to the news that MH370 had disappeared on its way from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. All 239 people on the flight, including her partner Philip Wood, are still missing.
A woman whose partner was on the Malaysia Airlines flight that went missing in 2014 has claimed there was an “intentional effort to cover up what happened”.
Ten years ago, Sarah Bajc woke up to the news that MH370 had disappeared on its way from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.
The Boeing 777 had 239 people on board when it disappeared, including her partner Philip Wood.
While satellite data analysis suggested that the plane had likely crashed somewhere in the southern Indian Ocean, off the coast of western Australia, two major searches failed to make any breakthroughs.
Speaking to Sky News on Friday, Ms Bajc said that the last ten years have “been a blink, and it’s also been forever because we still don’t have closure”.
“So even though I’ve moved on with my life, the other family members have all moved on with their lives, the reality is that the story has just stayed open,” she added.
The 58-year-old said she was “certain that there was some intentional effort to cover up what happened” to flight MH370, and added: “Whether the disappearance of the plane was intentional or accidental, I don’t know.
“But it’s absolutely true in my mind that the reason it hasn’t been solved, that the mystery hasn’t been solved, is because somebody doesn’t want us to know what happened.
“Whether that’s to cover up incompetence or bad decision making or an accident or whatever, I don’t know.
“But you can’t have a giant commercial aeroplane full of passengers go totally silent within minutes of taking off.”
‘I don’t hold a lot of hope’
Ms Bajc also said she was “delighted” to hear that there are plans to launch new searches for the flight and hopes “we can all put closure to the mystery”.
Anwar Ibrahim, the Malaysian prime minister, said earlier this week that his government is willing to re-open an investigation into the disappearance of MH370 if there was a case to do so.
But Ms Bajc – who now lives in Panama with her husband Ernesto, where they run a beach resort – downplayed the new search.
“The reality is that they had 95% surety that the first targeted zone would have the plane and they didn’t find the plane,” she said.
“I don’t hold a lot of hope because, again, I don’t believe there’s really any hard evidence that points to the plane having gone into the water.
“It was data points that could have easily been fabricated that they’re basing all of that on.”