The youngest son of the pilot of the ill-fated Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 has broken his silence by defending his father. He, like hundreds of other families of passengers onboard the missing flight, is clinging on to hope that his father Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah and other passengers may somehow have had a miraculous escape.
“I will believe it (that there are no survivors) when I see the proof in front of my eyes,” Ahmed Seth told the New Strait Times.
“I know my father better,” the NST quotes him as saying when asked about the wild theories floating about his father’s involvement in the plane’s disappearance. “I’ve read everything online. But I’ve ignored all the speculation. I know my father better,” he said.
Ahmed was comforted by his friends on Monday when Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak announced that the authorities had concluded that the missing aircraft had ended in the southern Indian Ocean.
Seth said he wasn’t surprised by the PM’s announcement, but was clinging on to a glimmer of hope in the absence of concrete physical proof.
“Now, we are just waiting for the right confirmation (for the wreckage or bodies),” he said.
Amon the pilot’s other children, his oldest child Ahmad Idris has made several comments on social media, thanking everyone for their support.
His daughter, Aishah Zaharie lives in Melbourne and has returned to Kuala Lumpur to be with her mother and family members.
Meanwhile, search operations for Flight MH370 in the southern Indian Ocean have once again been hampered by bad weather this morning.
Search operations have been suspended today, andthe Australian Maritime Safety Authority says all planes are returning to Perth and ships are leaving the search zone, about 2,500 kilometres southwest of Perth.
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I will believe when I see the proof: Son of MH370 pilot breaks silence
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