Accident claim paves way for Malaysia Air compo

Malaysia’s government declared the crash of Flight 370 an accident to pave the way for compensation claims, angering victims’ families still waiting for evidence while officials said the search for wreckage will go on.

Civil aviation chief Azharuddin Abdul Rahman said the hunt for the Malaysia Airlines jet, which disappeared on March 8, 2014, while flying from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people, “remains a priority”.

The plane is believed to have crashed in the southern Indian Ocean, off the coast of western Australia. No debris has ever been found.