Paris:Most of the time, Ghyslain Wattrelos believes that his wife and two of his three children are dead.
But that is pretty much all he believes of what the authorities in eight countries have said about the Malaysian plane that carried his family and disappeared a year ago as if swallowed whole by the earth.
A French engineer and senior business executive, Wattrelos has no physical proof of their death, with 236 others on board Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing last March.
No bodies, not even a trace of debris from the plane. He does not know where they died or how: Laurence, his wife of 24 years; his son Hadrien, who would have turned 18 last month, and his daughter, Ambre, barely a teenager, whose last text message to a friend before boarding the plane was "Soon I will see my papa again."
For a long time, he had held on to those words, willing them to still come true. They could have crash-landed, he hoped, on one of about 16,000 uninhabited islands in Indonesia. They could be hostages somewhere. Nothing seemed more outlandish than a Boeing 777's simply vanishing in the 21st century.
The tale of Flight 370 is the greatest unsolved mystery in aviation since Amelia Earhart disappeared with her Lockheed Electra in 1937.
07/05/15 Katrin Bennhold/NYT News Service/Times of India
But that is pretty much all he believes of what the authorities in eight countries have said about the Malaysian plane that carried his family and disappeared a year ago as if swallowed whole by the earth.
A French engineer and senior business executive, Wattrelos has no physical proof of their death, with 236 others on board Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing last March.
No bodies, not even a trace of debris from the plane. He does not know where they died or how: Laurence, his wife of 24 years; his son Hadrien, who would have turned 18 last month, and his daughter, Ambre, barely a teenager, whose last text message to a friend before boarding the plane was "Soon I will see my papa again."
For a long time, he had held on to those words, willing them to still come true. They could have crash-landed, he hoped, on one of about 16,000 uninhabited islands in Indonesia. They could be hostages somewhere. Nothing seemed more outlandish than a Boeing 777's simply vanishing in the 21st century.
The tale of Flight 370 is the greatest unsolved mystery in aviation since Amelia Earhart disappeared with her Lockheed Electra in 1937.
07/05/15 Katrin Bennhold/NYT News Service/Times of India
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