A relative of a missing Chinese passenger shows journalists in Beijing a piece of paper with the words ‘Hunger strike protest, Respect life, Return my relative, Don’t want become victim of politics, Tell the truth’ (Picture: AP)

Family members of Chinese passengers who were travelling on the missing MH370 flight have said they will go on hunger strike if more information is not released by Malaysian officials.

The majority of those on the Malaysia Airlines plane, which went missing 11 days ago, were from China and many relatives in the country have now grown tired of waiting for answers.

‘Relatives are very unsatisfied. So you hear them saying “hunger strike”,’ said Wen Wancheng, whose son was on the flight, which had 239 people on board.

‘Now we have no news, and everyone is understandably worried. The relatives say they will go to the (Malaysian) embassy to find the ambassador.’


A widespread search is underway to find the wreckage of the missing plane (Picture: MME/Getty)

The families have been meeting Malaysia Airlines officials on a regular basis in Beijing but have grown frustrated with the lack of progress.



‘Since they haven’t given us the truth about those people’s lives, all of us are protesting,’ said an unnamed woman standing outside the hotel room where the meeting was held.

‘All the relatives are facing mental breakdowns.’

The investigation into the missing plane has now turned its attention to the pilots of the jet, and yesterday it was revealed that the search area now covers about 15 per cent of the planet’s surface.