Family members of those aboard the plane wore symbolic T-shirts and released white balloons Sunday as they marked the anniversary of the jet’s disappearance.
Gatherings were held in Kuala Lumpur, where the flight departed on March 8, 2014, and Beijing, where it was headed when it vanished with 239 people aboard. Despite an intensive yearlong search, no trace of the Boeing 777 has been found.
“My daughter asks me every day, ‘Where is Daddy? Why isn’t he answering his phone?” a teary-eyed Kelly Wen from China, whose husband was on the plane, said at a gathering at a mall in Kuala Lumpur to mark the anniversary.
The more than 100 people who gathered wore white T-shirts with the picture of an airplane and bearing the words “Search on,” as a video tribute of the passengers and crew members was played.
About 30 family members later went on stage for speeches and a group photo.
One man dedicated a poem to his aunt Anne Daisy, who was aboard the plane.
“You have been hidden from me,” he said. “I don’t know where to search, when will we once again meet?”
