PETALING JAYA: The third remembrance event for the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 will highlight aviation safety.

Grace Subathirai Nathan (pic), whose mother Anne Daisy was one of the 239 people on board the Beijing-bound Boeing 777 on March 8, 2014, said that family members wanted the event to focus less on grieving next of kin.

“When we started the Search On campaign before the first anniversary of the disa­p­pearance to advocate for the search to continue, it was a lot about our closure and loss.

“But now we want it to move towards global aviation safety to raise awareness,” said Grace, 29.

(Search On was the theme chosen by the families before they held the first remembrance.)

The event at The Square, Publika, at 2pm tomorrow will feature a talk on the importance of aviation safety by National Air Disaster Foundation executive director Gail A. Dunham.

University of Western Australia coastal oceanography professor Dr Charitha Pattiaratchi is expected to share information about the utilisation of ocean drift modelling techniques to locate MH370.

Family members from Malaysia, Australia, France, India and China will also launch a privately-funded search for the missing plane.

Consultant clinical psychologist and Monash University Jeffrey Cheah School of Medicine and Health Sciences senior lecturer Paul Jambunathan will discuss the importance of closure.

In an interview, Grace said: “I don’t know when I will finally attain closure completely. I also have to entertain the fact that I may never know.

“But I think doing everything I can, and having some of our questions answered, would help.”

The next of kin want the public to know that what they were championing could prevent a similar disaster, she said.

Grace, a corporate and human rights lawyer, took a year off last year to devote herself to the cause. She resumed work in January.

Recalling her November trip to Madagascar and Mauritius, Grace said: “I couldn’t for the life of me believe I was halfway across the world looking for what might be the only thing that’s left of my mother, who had never been anywhere near Africa and was on a flight heading to China but somehow ended in Australia.”

There were moments over the past three years when she said she broke down but she was determined to continue to do the best she could.

“There may come a point when I just cannot do it anymore, but until that point comes, I will keep on trying,” she said.