Families urge expanded search for missing flight as their hopes fade_美文

Families urge expanded search for missing flight as their hopes fade

However, Tencent Inc, which operates QQ, said the passengers probably failed to shut down the software properly, which made it appear as if they had been online.

Ignitias Ong, CEO of Malaysia Airlines subsidiary Firefly Airlines, said family and friends of all passengers on the missing flight have been contacted. Some family members disagreed, saying they found out about the incident through the media.

Malaysia Airlines has offered to fly relatives of the missing passengers to Malaysia to "help them get closer to the location of the missing flight," Ong said, but many family members have refused the offer.

"I won't go with them until I know for sure what has happened to the flight," said Jiang Bo, from Qingdao, Shandong province, who had a relative on the flight.

Questions:

1. How many people were on board Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370?

2. What are two reasons passengers’ family members are complaining about Malaysia Airlines?

3. Who is Ignitias Ong?

Answers:

1. 239.

2. They say there is a lack of information and slow response by the airline.

3. CEO of Malaysia Airlines subsidiary Firefly Airlines.

About the broadcaster:

Anne Ruisi is an editor at China Daily online with more than 30 years of experience as a newspaper editor and reporter. She has worked at newspapers in the U.S., including The Birmingham News in Alabama and City Newspaper of Rochester, N.Y.