9 years after Malaysia Airlines lost contact, how are the families who refused to pay 2.52 million yuan in compensation doing

In 2014, Li Yanlin, a young man from Hebei, was sent by ZTE Company to Malaysia on a business trip.At 0:41 a

In 2014, Li Yanlin, a young man from Hebei, was sent by ZTE Company to Malaysia on a business trip.

At 0:41 a.m. on March 8, his flight MH370 took off from Kuala Lumpur International Airport,At this point, his distance from his motherland was only a 6-hour voyage.

40 minutes later, the plane lost contact with humans.The fate of the 227 passengers and 12 crew members onboard, including 154 Chinese passengers, is uncertain.

Afterwards, various revelations such as crashes, hijackings, suicides, and retaliations emerged from time to time, occupying the top of the hot search list.

However, the truth remains uncertain to this day.

Li Yanlin's father, Li Eryou, spent his entire life working as a small mountain village farmer in Handan. He couldn't believe that such a large plane would say 'no' and then disappear.After the airline proposed compensation, the Li Eryou couple refused because their most simple truth was: "Live to see people, die to see bodies

Like Li Eryou, the Chinese families who refused the high compensation of 2.52 million are still fighting for a truth in their own way! But behind each of them, there is a different bitterness.

01

On the early morning of March 8, 2014, before dawn, Li Yanlin's girlfriend arrived at Beijing Capital Airport early to pick up her boyfriend who had returned from a business trip in Malaysia,This was supposed to be their third meeting, and the two had just met through blind dates over a month ago.

Time flowed by minute by second, and as the plane was already two hours late, the MH370 on the pick-up flight information screen remained motionless.

The first official message from Malaysia Airlines was officially released at 7:24, and it was announced that MH370 had lost contact 6 hours ago. An hour and a half later, the Civil Aviation Administration of China confirmed the information of the plane's loss of contact.

The Civil Aviation Administration notified the family to go to the Lido Hotel in Beijing.

Li Yanlin's father, Li Eryou, was working in the factory when he received the news.Li Eryou hurriedly rushed home, grabbed two pieces of clothes, picked up his collapsed wife Liu Shuangfeng, and rushed to the Lido Hotel in Beijing together.

This is the first time Li Eryou has heard of 'losing contact'. At that time, he didn't know how long it would mean and didn't know what he could do.He followed the crowd to attend press conferences of all sizes every day, and when he returned to the hotel, he kept watching the news with the TV in his arms. Apart from crying and smoking, Li Eryou couldn't do anything.

Seventeen days later, Prime Minister Najib of Prime Minister of Malaysia issued a statement:The latest survey shows that the last location where MH370 appeared was in the South Indian Ocean, with a line below the news saying, 'No one on board has survived.'.

Upon hearing this, Liu Shuangfeng fell to the ground. Li Eryou stood up and shouted in Handan dialect, "Family members, you can't wait here, go to the embassy to protest

Since then, the families of 154 Chinese passengers have embarked on the path of safeguarding their rights.

At that time, they only wanted to maintain the belief that their loved ones would come back. After some negotiations, the embassy issued a written document confirming that the wording of the news footage was not what Najib personally said.

The family members held the piece of paper to prove that they were crying out loud, which was their hope for survival.

That time, they stayed at the Lido Hotel for over 50 days, and the Kuriya couple were the last to leave. When he returned, Li Eryou spent a huge amount of money to replace his elderly phone and purchased a smartphone. The "huge amount of money" he used was a comfort fee of 30000 yuan distributed by Malaysia Airlines to his family at the beginning of the plane's loss of contact.

Since then, Li Eryou, 57, has learned to use smart phones, send microblogs, look up maps, learn English

02

After returning from the Lido Hotel, Li Eryou and his wife directly stayed at their eldest daughter's house. His wife Liu Shuangfeng remained awake all night, occasionally falling asleep, crying and even dropping her phone. However, when Li Eryou asked her the next day, she was completely unaware.

After Liu Shuangfeng broke three mobile phones in succession, Li Eryou had to take her to the central hospital of Handan for examination, and was soon diagnosed with severe depression.

Liu Shuangfeng began to be hysterical and easily blamed Li Eryou, saying, "You killed the child! You sent him to Malaysia

Whenever this happens, Li Eryou can only hide outside the door and squat in the corner smoking fiercely.

Their son has always been their pride, and even the pride of the entire village. He not only went to university and studied advanced communication majors, but also obtained a job expanding overseas projects at ZTE.At that time, Li Yanlin had four options: India, Thailand, Malaysia, and Russia. He chose Malaysia at the suggestion of his father.

My former son was the first college student to work abroad, which made the whole village envious. Now, Li Eryou can only serve as an outlet for Liu Shuangfeng to vent his emotions.

Li Eryou listened and endured honestly. He insisted on going to the city hospital every half a month to get his wife medication for 495 yuan each time.

A few months later, he was really unable to afford it and could only stop antidepressant treatment. Liu Shuangfeng relied on one tablet of antipsychotic medication for ten cents to make a living. It wasn't until more than a year later for a follow-up examination that the doctor ordered the discontinuation of diazepam.

At this point, Li Eryou also realized that the side effects of long-term use of Diazepam could be fatal.

Even so, the money squeezed out by the old couple will still give priority to buying tickets. As long as they save enough travel expenses, the two of them will go to the Beijing Airport Center together and ask the staff of Malaysia Airlines about the progress of the investigation. Go four times a month when there is more, and also go twice when there is less.

Only by going to Beijing can they get closer to the truth and their son.

The old couple spend the summer night fighting on the square, on street seats, and in underground passages. In winter, they go to fast food restaurants like McDonald's and order the cheapest drink to sit overnight.

On January 29, 2015, the Beijing Airport Center held another family meeting, and the Malaysian Civil Aviation Authority announced the crash of flight MH370, assuming that all personnel on board were killed.

Live to see people, die to see bodies! "The meeting was once out of control, and no one accepted this" presumption ".Li Eryou smashed the table like a madman, enveloped in layers of anger and despair, as if he could no longer find the gap through which hope could penetrate.

The next day, the Ministry of Transport of Transport in Malaysia proposed to compensate the family members. However, how can everyone give up the hope of "waiting for their loved ones to return home"?

03

In less than a month, which is the Spring Festival for family reunion, where have the lost relatives gone? The family committee spontaneously organized a trip to Malaysia to seek an explanation from the Malaysian government.

This is Li Eryou's first time taking a plane, his first time going abroad, wearing a cultural shirt with the words "MH370 Safe Home" printed on it. Many people inquired about him along the way, but did they find the plane?

Li Eryou could only helplessly wave his hand and look out of the window without turning his face.

In addition to following the collective actions of the family committee, Li Eryou also found his son's office in Kuala Lumpur,The person in charge of reception in the unit said, "Your son is not dead, he is in this room, he is separated by a wall from you, but you will never see him

This sentence reminded Li Eryou from time to time in the coming years, and he kept pondering it. Then, he firmly stored it as evidence that his son was still alive in his heart.

After returning to China, he began to insist on calling his son every Saturday night, turning a deaf ear to the sound of prompts coming from the receiver, and always indulging himself in chatting with his son.

My son's room has always been the same, regularly cleaned, and sitting in front of his bookshelf, Li Eryou always involuntarily flipped through "Robinson Crusoe".

Robinson was the hero of his son's childhood, and perhaps now his son has also become Robinson, creating his own kingdom on a deserted island.

On March 8, 2015, one year after the plane disappeared, the Malaysia Airlines MH370 was identified as an air crash, and some families of the lost passengers initiated compensation lawsuits.

At that time, Li Eryou firmly believed that his son was still alive, and he did not want to claim compensation. What he wanted was for the responsible party to return him with a intact son.

On February 28, 2016, American explorer Gibson discovered a piece of aircraft wreckage on the east coast of Africa. Subsequently, officials declared, "It is almost certain to come from MH370

In December of that year, Li Eryou and other family members formed an 8-person search team and arrived in Madagascar.Eight members from three countries need to walk through this 20 kilometer long coastline with their feet and search for wreckage with their naked eyes.

During a cross island search, their rented speedboat was overturned by a huge wave, and everyone fell into the sea. Li Eryou lost consciousness in an instant. Fortunately, not far from the shore, in a daze, Li Eryou had already been washed ashore.

Only if he lives well can he wait for his son who lives well.

04

Later, they really found a honeycomb shaped suspected aircraft wreckage, holding it in their hands. The family members understood it silently, perhaps the closest they had been to their loved ones in over two years.

Subsequently, they brought the wreckage back to China and handed it over to the Civil Aviation Administration. Later, it was transferred to France for identification, but there were no results.

But the families hope to use their efforts and actions to tell the official that if the family has not given up, the official must not give up either. However, it did not meet their expectations.

One month later, officials from Malaysia, Australia, and China announced the suspension of underwater search operations. However, the civilian search team composed of family members still persisted, using the most foolish methods to urge the authorities to restart the search operation.

In January 2018, the Malaysian government approved the US Houston Marine General partnership to restart the search for flight MH370.

At this time, Jiang Hui, the initiator of this private search team composed of family members, resigned from his position as the director of the Beijing office of a state-owned enterprise for almost three years.As one of the representatives of the Family Committee, he has been striving to find a balance between real life and the identity of the lost family.

Like Li Eryou, Jiang Hui has an unforgettable sense of self blame for his mother's loss of contact. His inner commitment to traveling with her is as clear as 9 years ago.

On November 30, 2018, the original investigation team of Malaysia Airlines' loss of contact incident was disbanded, and all investigation work was transferred to the Malaysian Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau. Domestic families represented by Jiang Hui protested.

When it comes to Jiang Hui, everyone has a good reputation, and rationality, optimism, and not forgetting his original intention are the evaluations of most people.

Whenever it's still at night, Jiang Hui still repeats the habit of more than 4 years, forwarding and commenting on the news about MH370 on Weibo, summarizing it in his family group, and raising demands for confrontation with Malaysia Airlines.

Later, Malaysia Airlines retained its monthly meeting with family members and continued to apply for psychological assistance for them.After losing contact with MH370, like Liu Shuangfeng, there were many family members locked in by depression.

Li Lei is a fashionable aunt who likes to drink iced English black tea and must wear sunglasses when going out. Since her daughter lost contact, she has been spending the night on Hypnotic. She couldn't see any inaccurate and sensationalist reports in the media, and the words' the plane may crash 'and' the families of the victims' would make her angry every time she saw them.

Xu Jinghong is a calm and intelligent woman. After her mother lost contact, she began to smoke crazily,An MH370 was tattooed on her left forearm as it was landing, with the nose facing her heart.

Yang Lifeng and his wife drive to Shunyi every Friday to clean their daughter and son-in-law's house. They always wipe the floor until it reflects light, and cook a steaming lunch before leaving,One day, when my daughter and son-in-law returned, how could they behave without a cigarette in the house?

The family members share the same sadness, but warm each other with different stories.

Even though Malaysia Airlines' compensation plan has reached 2.52 million yuan per family member of the victims, Jiang Hui remains unmoved. Like Li Eryou, even if the cost of borrowing to Madagascar has not been fully paid, he still cannot accept using money to cover up the truth.

In the family committee, there are families who do not accept compensation of 2.52 million yuan, as well as the Saint Fighter faction represented by Wen Wan.

05

Wen Wancheng's only son is on MH370 flight, and he is still charging his son's phone, sometimes even charging 3000.

Since 2014, Wen Wancheng and his wife have traveled countless times between Jinan and Beijing. One thing he has always done is to call on the legal weapons of the big family to hold them accountable.

Three laptops, four mobile phones, four pinhole cameras, and ten 2T hard drives are all the belongings of Wen Wancheng, which are filled with information about MH370.

In February 2016, the High people's court officially designated the Beijing Railway Transport Court to centrally accept civil claims filed by families of passengers who lost contact with Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.

In November of the following year, a pre-trial meeting was held for the first Malaysia Airlines lost contact family claim case, with 14 cases in the first trial with claims ranging from 10 million to 74.9 million.

However, in the defense phase of the defendants, five defendants: Malaysian Airlines, Malaysia Airlines Co., Ltd., Boeing Company, Rolls Royce Holdings Limited and Allianz Insurance Group presented relevant evidence that should not be held responsible.

This will be a long and bumpy path to safeguarding rights.

Among these 14 cases, it includes the lawsuit filed by single mother Li Xiuzhi -14.67 million yuan.

Li Jie, the only daughter of Li Xiuzhi, is an excellent senior foreign language translator. After returning from Malaysia, her wedding will be held, and Li Xiuzhi has prepared all her dowries for her.

However, half a month after the disbandment of Ma Hang's original investigation team, Li Xiuzhi passed away. She could no longer wait for her daughter, and she would never be able to personally put on her wedding dress in her lifetime.

On November 30, 2021, British Airways engineer Richard Godfrey issued a statement, saying that he used a new tracking technology to find the exact crash location of the MH370, which is located in the Indian Ocean, 1993 kilometers west of Perth, Australia, and is currently 4000 meters below sea level.

And to this day, the search results are still unknown.

Jiang Hui and Li Eryou are still planning their next departure.

Nine years have passed, and now, the truth is their final destination!

Author: Zhou Banpai

Editor: Mengmeng

References:

Malaysia Airlines MH370's First Passengers' Family Claims Exceeding Tens of Millions: Angry with No One to Take Responsibility "New Beijing News on December 21, 2017

Hong Kong Media: Experts claim to use new technology to track the location of the MH370 plane crash "CCTV News on December 23, 2021

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