PM Scheduled To Meet Family Members Of MH370 Passengers Today #PRAYFORMH370

March 9 (Bernama) -- The next-of-kin and family members of passengers in the Malaysia Airlines (MAS) MH370, who are now placed at the Everly Hotel, Putrajaya, will be taken to the KL International Airport (KLIA) to be flown to an undisclosed location at 9am today.

A next-of-kin of one of the passengers who declined to be identified said they were informed that Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak and wife, Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor, were scheduled to meet them after dawn.

The management of MAS, as well as the Department of Civil Aviation (DCA), the Malaysian Army, the Royal Malaysian Navy and the Royal Malaysia Air Force, is scheduled to hold a media conference at a hotel at KLIA on the latest development pertaining to the missing aircraft later today.

Meanwhile, checks by Bernama at KLIA early today found the situation at the report returning to normalcy with a few local and foreign journalists still there waiting to get the latest information on the missing Boeing 777-200.

The MH370 aircraft from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, which carried 227 passengers , including two infants, and 12 crew members, disappeared from the radar screen after taking off from the KL International Airport at 12.41am yesterday. It should have landed in Beijing at 6.30am.

-- BERNAMA