March 8, 2014, for the vast majority of people, it was just an ordinary day that could not be more ordinary. However, it was a day of a lifetime for the families of the 227 passengers who flew on Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.
The plane is good, and the signal is lost when it flies, and after more than nine years of searching, it is still impossible to confirm where the plane and the passengers on it have gone.
After negotiations, Malaysia Airlines decided that all family members who were willing to settle would receive 2.52 million yuan in compensation. Among the families of the 152 passengers killed in Chinese mainland, some chose to compromise, while others chose to refuse.
They firmly believe that the relatives on the plane are still alive in some corner of this world and will definitely come back ......
On March 8, 2014, at 0:41 Beijing time, flight MH370 took off from Kuala Lumpur International Airport on time and prepared to go to Beijing.
Chinese passengers accounted for more than half of the passengers on the plane, at 154.
However, when the plane came to the junction of the Kuala Lumpur air traffic control area and the Ho Chi Minh City air traffic control area in Vietnam, it suddenly "disappeared".
Before the plane lost contact, the Malaysian control tower announced to MH370 as usual: "You have been handed over to the jurisdiction of Ho Chi Minh City." The flight did not answer abnormally at that time: "Okay, Roger." ”
But it's so miraculous that soon after the call, the Malaysian radar could not scan the aircraft's number, and could only confirm that there was an object in the sky before flying.
After a few minutes, the only signal was gone.
After the news of the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines spread, it quickly caused an uproar in China, with some people speculating that the plane should have been hijacked by gangsters, some suspecting that the plane may have disintegrated in the air, and some suspecting that the plane had an accident and fell into the sea. All of a sudden, conspiracy theories abounded.
However, for the families of the passengers on board the Malaysia Airlines MH370, all this is irrelevant, they just want to know, are the relatives on the plane okay?
Although in the current situation, the possibility of a plane crash is extremely high. But the families remain hopeful. Someone called a loved one after the plane went missing, and ** had been connected at that time, but no one responded. Others said they received an unfamiliar number, but hung up before they could answer it.
As long as there is a glimmer of hope, they are not willing to give up.
One year after the loss of MH370, Malaysia Airlines proposed a compensation standard of 2.52 million yuan, which is far more than the amount stipulated in the 1999 Montreal Convention. But at the same time, they demanded that the families of the victims abstain from accountability.
The 39 family members chose to accept the status quo and settle with Malaysia Airlines and receive 2.52 million in compensation.
Other family members have refused to claim compensation, and the "remedy for pain" of time has not worked, and they firmly believe it. His loved ones are still alive.
To this day, Wen Wancheng and Li Jiping still hold out hope, and their son Wen Yongsheng is likely to be alive in the world.
After learning the news of the child's accident on March 8, 2014, Li Jiping collapsed directly to the ground, unable to say a word in a daze.
His wife Wen Wancheng is much stronger, although he is also very sad in his heart, he has been cheering her up: "The plane is just missing, I didn't say that it must have been an accident." ”
The wife's words gave Li Jiping great confidence, yes, he slept very well on the night of the 7th, and the mother and son were connected, if the child really had an accident, how could he not have any sense at all?
It is precisely because of the support of this belief that the old couple did not really collapse.
When they went to Beijing to wait for news, the relevant departments also specially and thoughtfully assigned psychological experts. For the kindness of **, Li Jiping was very grateful and said to the expert: "Don't worry, I went to find my son, and if my son didn't pick him up, I will definitely be fine." ”
They waited a long time, but they didn't wait for a little good news. The experts on TV are painstakingly analyzing this and that, but there is no news that Wen Wancheng and Li Jiping want to hear.
In the eyes of his family, Wen Wancheng is like a fighter with high morale, even if the Malaysian side publicly announced that the plane fell into the Indian Ocean, he did not have the will to be depressed. He kept going back and forth between Beijing and Jinan, and when he was negotiating with the relevant parties on the spot, other family members were arguing there, and he secretly took videos to collect evidence. This is the most primitive evidence, and it cannot be faked.
A reporter bluntly asked Wen Wancheng, if there is evidence that your child is gone, will you collapse. Wen Wancheng didn't think much about it, so he replied directly:
What's there to crumble about, there is no evidence yet that my son was killed. Since there is no evidence, why should I scare myself?”
However, Wen Wancheng is not as strong as he appears to be.
In 2015, he organized a group of nearly 20 family members to meet with Malaysia's transport minister, which was rejected.
On the coast of Malaysia, Wen Wancheng, who is over sixty years old, looked at the vast sea, and he couldn't help crying loudly at the sea:
Son, I must find you!”
After crying, Wen Wancheng wiped away his tears and threw himself into the unyielding "battle" again. He thinks that crying won't do anything, and it's better to do more.
Over the years, the lives of Wen Wancheng and his wife have not changed much, and all the pain has been deeply suppressed in their hearts.
Wen Wancheng became the director of the community owners' committee, and after experiencing so much pain, he has his own experience in regulating family conflicts, and many things can find good solutions.
Li Jiping smokes more and more often, and he always feels uncomfortable when he doesn't smoke.
The grandchildren used to often ask where their father went, but now they are much more sensible, thinking that their father has gone abroad, and often asking their grandparents will arouse their feelings of longing.
Wen Wancheng said that now they only want to watch their grandchildren grow up and "wait for me to come back." ”
Lin Xiaolan has only one son, Lin Annan, who was 27 years old when he went missing, studying in Malaysia and graduating in three months. At that time, I planned to return to China to handle practical Xi matters, who would have thought ......
Lin Xiaolan didn't believe that her son was dead, and firmly believed that MH370 might have been kidnapped by kidnappers and tied to some remote corner of the world.
The reason why this conclusion was reached is because in the two months after the incident, her family often had foreign ** calls, and even Kuala Lumpur's**.
The strange thing is that after ** was connected, the other side didn't say a word, and after two minutes of silence, he would actively hang up, leaving a series of busy tones.
At the same time, the mobile phone of a missing passenger also generated a call bill of 9 cents. If the plane really had an accident, then the 9 cents were generated from **?
However, although she firmly believed that her son was still alive, this incident still caused great stimulation to Lin Xiaolan, and she couldn't continue her work in the Provincial Family Planning Commission, so she had to choose to retire early.
When the Malaysian side proposed to compensate 2.52 million yuan, and the family gave up all responsibility, some family members looked away, or because the family conditions were too difficult, and finally chose to compromise.
The family members have a special group, and other family members are very unaccustomed to this kind of "unfirm" family members. Lin Xiaolan is also one of them, she feels that the truth of the matter has not been clarified, how can she be exempted from responsibility and reconciled?If you give up pursuing the truth of the accident for the sake of 2.52 million, it is equivalent to exchanging the lives of your loved ones for money.
This kind of thing, he said he didn't want to say anything.
Li Eryou is a farmer in Handan, Hebei Province, compared with the vast majority of farmers in China, he is very special, he has been to many countries in Southeast Asia, Africa, and Europe at his own expense, and he will run to Beijing if he has nothing to do.
However, if he could, he would rather continue to be a farmer guarding one acre and three points of land.
In 2014, Li Eryou's son, Li Yanlin, ended a business trip from Malaysia and flew back to China. At that time, he met a girl under the introduction of his father, and the two got along well, and the girl also went to Beijing to pick up the airport.
Who would have thought that the son did not wait for the news of the disappearance.
Li Eryou said that he didn't believe anything, a plane, so many people, said that it was gone, it was a person who didn't believe such a ridiculous thing.
Li Eryou, who has been wandering around Hebei Province for more than 50 years, went to Beijing again and again for his son's affairs, just to get an answer that may never be there.
Malaysia said that the plane crashed, but Li Eryou didn't believe it. He set up a chronograph in his living room, changing the number every day.
If he goes out, his family will do it.
Later, Malaysia Airlines issued a report of more than 800 pages and solemnly handed it over to Li Eryou. This is an all-English report, and it is undoubtedly very difficult for him to understand the 26 English letters.
In this case, Li Eryou forced himself to learn the computer, and then typed it letter by letter, and forced the report to be translated.
As the days passed, Li Eryou felt that he couldn't wait for his son to come back if he waited stupidly, so he decided to go out to find it himself.
Even if his economic situation is not rich, Li Eryou still goes to Southeast Asia, Europe, and Africa at his own expense. The plane may be in **, and he will go**.
The round-trip air ticket is a lot of money, and Li Eryou is generally able to save it. In the jungles of Madagascar, he had been picking wild fruits for several days on end, and when he was sleepy, he slept on the ground. Although he may encounter danger, he feels motivated at the thought that his son may be waiting for him somewhere.
Regarding the compensation of more than 2 million, Li Eryou chose to refuse without hesitation: "If I ask for this money, won't my son be gone?"”
Li Xiuzhi was 64 years old at the time of the incident, and her daughter Li Jie was a high-achieving student with study experience in the United Kingdom, and became a translator after graduation.
Li Xiuzhi's wife left early, and she originally thought that she would rely on her daughter to support her in the future, but who would have thought that she would encounter such a big change at the age of 27.
said that she would get married when she came back, Li Xiuzhi even prepared her dowry, but the person was gone.
As a doctor, Li Xiuzhi used to live a very regular life, but after her daughter's accident, she suffered from depression, and her life became more and more chaotic. Like other family members, she also has a glimmer of hope in her heart: "What if?What if the plane is hijacked?”
However, the result of waiting was that Malaysia Airlines announced that it would stop the investigation.
The cold four words were equivalent to strangling all Li Xiuzhi's hopes, and she really couldn't accept it, so she fainted directly on the spot.
Once, Li Xiuzhi often held a note in her hand: "Mom will always wait for you and never give up." ”
Now that the authorities have stopped the investigation, what can she, an old lady in her sixties, do?The answer was to reject the $2.52 million compensation offered by Malaysia Airlines.
If you ask for this money, then all the waiting will be meaningless. She angrily asked, "Why is no one responsible?"”
Since March 8, 2014, 9 years and more than 3,000 days have passed. From a rational point of view, even if the Malaysia Airlines MH370 was really hijacked by gangsters, the chances of passengers surviving today are extremely low.
However, even when the hope was extremely low, they did not regret it.
When flight MU5735 crashed last year, a family member of the MH370 victim also wrote a letter to the families of the victims of the plane, saying:
"Don't wait alone, stay with your family. You don't have to talk when you sit together, you can hold and cry when you should cry, sit quietly together when you're tired, and encourage each other to eat when you're hungry. The people around you just need to listen.Because of the particularity of the MH370 incident, eight years later, I still don't know how to transition from a normal with loved ones to another new normal, I don't make any assumptions about my mother, I don't confirm that she is still alive, I don't admit that she has left, how each family gets out of the predicament of life, it may take time to solve it in the end. ”