KUALA LUMPUR: The next-of-kin of passengers of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 have filed a judicial review application, naming the Transport Minister, Department of Civil Aviation and the Malaysian government as respondents.

Four Malaysians and a Taiwanese are seeking to have documents and the flight transcript be declassified from the Official Secrets Act (OSA) 1972 as they need these documents for their civil suit.

Among the documents sought are the transcript of communication of MH370, Letter of Agreement SAR (Singapore, Thailand and Indonesia), minutes of meeting with relevant agencies, internal memos, as well as MH370/SAR Operational Report/ Post Mortem.

A court order is sought by the five to have these documents declassified as well as a declaration that the documents cannot be classified under Section 2A of the OSA.

The application, which was filed today by lawyer for the families Sangeet Kaur Deo said the documents were needed for the negligence suit against Malaysia Airlines, Department of Civil Aviation and the Malaysian government which was filed in August 2015.

Lawyers Ngeow Chow Ting and Tan Chee Kian represented the family of Tan Ah Meng and his wife, Chuang Hsiu Ling and their son, Tan Wei Chu.

Their remaining two children and Tan's parents Tan Hun Khong and Lai Chew Lai, as well as Chuang's Taiwanese father Hung Chien, filed the suit.

They had also sent a letter to the Transport Minister in June this year to declassify the documents.

Transport Minister Anthony Loke has said the full and final report on the findings into the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 will be released by the end of this month.

The investigation team would brief families of those aboard on the report at the Transport Ministry on July 30, and a press conference would be held after that.



The flight MH370, that disappeared during a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8, 2014, had become one of the greatest mysteries in aviation.