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MH370 families say they 'will never give up searching'

Families of the 239 people on board Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 are marking the first anniversary of the plane's disappearance with a vow to never give up on the search for answers to the world's biggest aviation mystery.

On Sunday an interim report into the missing plane revealed that the plane's underwater locator beacon battery had expired a year before it disappeared.

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MH370 hunt to go 'back to the drawing board' without find

If the massive undersea search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 turns up nothing by the end of May, the three countries leading the effort will return to the drawing board, Malaysia's transport minister said.

A crew member from the Royal Malaysian Air Force looks through the window Credit: Reuters

On the eve of the anniversary of the plane's disappearance during a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, Liow Tiong Lai said he remained "cautiously optimistic" the Boeing 777 should be in the area of the southern Indian Ocean where the search has been ongoing.

"By the end of May, if we still can't find the plane, then we will have to go back to the drawing board," he said.

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