MH370 Pakatan Rakyat leaders have urged the government to explain what it actually meant when Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak said that the MH370 flight "ended in the southern Indian Ocean" in a late press conference on March 24.

 

DAP supremo Lim Kit Siang said it was clearly a "mistake" by Najib to make such an announcement and then have acting Transport Minister Hishamuddin Hussein assert that Najib never said that the plane crashed.

 

Lim questioned Najib's move to register a special motion to express sympathy for the families of those on board the ill-fated flight the following day in Parliament, after many national newspapers had paid tribute to the plane with the assumption that the plane had "crashed".

 

"He could have said there are indications or possibilities. What he said was not conclusive at all," he said during a press conference at Parliament today.

When moving his motion in Parliament, Najib even said that a decision would be made regarding special prayers for dead would be made soon.

Meanwhile, PAS'’Pokok Sena MP Mahfuz Omar said that if the government wants to sue foreign media for false reporting, it should also sue newspapers which assumed that MH370 has crashed.

“Many newspapers even manipulated what the PM said about MH370, if that is the case. They all assumed that the plane has crashed,” Mahfuz said.