MH370 Malaysia Airlines (MAS) will hold a private service in remembrance of its personnel aboard the ill-fated MH370 which vansihed on March 8 last year, this Sunday.

The service is a private affair which will only be attended by the family of MAS personnel who had perished in the accident and also by its employees, a MAS spokesperson told Bernama today.

“Grief and loss are an intensely personal thing. Each family involved will want to mark the occasion in their own way, away from the glare of the media.

“So as the many families involved gather privately to remember their loved ones who were on MH370, we will assemble the MAS family to devote time to our own private reflection and remembrance,” she said when asked on the airline’s plan for the one-year anniversary for MH370.

The dispearance of the Boeing 777 flight MH370 with its 12 crew and 227 passengers from the radar screen while en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing about an hour after departing the KL International Airport at about 12.41am on March 8 last year, was officially declared by the Malaysian government on Jan 29 this year as an accident under international aviation rules, and that all 239 passengers and crew aboard are presumed to have lost their lives.

The Malaysian government has also stressed that the search for the Boeing 777 remains a priority, and it is committed to continue all reasonable efforts to bring closure to this unfortunate tragedy, with the continuing cooperation and assistance of the governments of China and Australia.

- Bernama