Screaming family members of passengers on the missing Malaysia Airlines jet were forcibly removed from a hotel room after invading a press conference which was about to start and accusing the Malaysian government of failing to work hard enough to find the plane.
Half a dozen people held up banners blaming the government of inaction as airline officials desperately tried to resume order.
But one women screamed: 'You are traitors to us... you have let us down. Tell us the truth! We want the truth!'
During the press conference, Malaysia's Acting Transport Minister Hishammuddin Hussein said officials had received further radar data, but were 'not at liberty to release information from other countries'
Several residents of Kudahuvadhoo, one of the more remote atolls in the Indian Ocean island chain nation, had reported seeing a low-flying aircraft on the morning of March 8, when Flight MH370 disappeared en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.
Hishammuddin Hussein told a daily news conference today that the reports had been investigated by police in the Maldives and were determined to be untrue.
The anger of the Chinese group reflected the fury of other relatives in Beijing who have threatened to go on a hunger strike unless more details about the search for the flight were immediately released.
During the press conference Hishammuddin said he 'fully understands' the frustration of the relatives of the missing passengers and said a high-level delegation was being sent to Beijing to speak to the families.
He later ordered an inquiry into the incident where security guards carried out the distraught mother of one of the passengers.
Hishammuddin Hussein (centre) told a news conference he 'fully understands' the frustration of the relatives of the missing passengers and said a high-level delegation was being sent to Beijing
Hishammuddin also told the news conference Malaysia had received radar data from other countries.
He said: 'I can confirm that we have received some radar data, but we are not at liberty to release information from other countries.'
Other developments and new theories surrounding the ongoing mystery of the missing plane today included:
- A veteran pilot has predicted the flight was in trouble and simply heading for the nearest safe airport when it turned off-course
- A remote island in the middle of the Indian Ocean with a runway long enough to land a Boeing 777 was programmed into the home flight simulator of the pilot of the missing plane
- The abrupt U-turn made by the missing jet is believed to have been programmed into the on board computer before the last radio contact was made with the co-pilot
It has also been reported today that a source close to the investigation said investigators believe the plane most likely flew into the southern Indian Ocean.
No wreckage has been found from Flight MH370, which vanished from air traffic control screens off Malaysia's east coast at 1:21 a.m. local time on March 8, less than an hour after taking off from Kuala Lumpur bound for Beijing.
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