MH370 10 years on: Should the search for the doomed flight continue?
239 passengers and crew were on board the aircraft bound for Beijing when it vanished somewhere in the Indian Ocean on March 8, 2014.
Jacquita Gonzales' husband, Patrick Gomes, was the chief steward on the flight.
Flight MH370 disappeared from radars 10 years ago, and was never found. Nine
She said authorities must not give up on finding him.
"I thought we would have answers earlier – way, way earlier. I don't know if I can wait another 10 years," she told 60 Minutes.
Underwater surveyor Peter Waring worked on the first search for MH370 in 2015 and claims the mission was doomed from the start when the Australian Transport Safety Bureau was put in charge.
"The Australian government made a fundamental mistake in assuming a transportation investigation authority could run a search. And not just any search, but the largest search in human history," he said.
The ATSB search failed to locate the doomed flight. Nine
"The ATSB, despite being full of well-intentioned people, was not the right agency to be running the search."
Waring believes the authorities should investigate the reported discovery of a large wing of an aircraft reportedly found off the coast of South Australia.
Kit Olver told 60 Minutes he immediately thought of MH370 when the piece of debris got caught in the net of his fishing trawler seven months after the flight disappeared.
The fisherman says he reported his find to authorities.
"It was the wing off a bloody aircraft. If it's not from MH370, what is it?" he said.
Kit Olver believes he caught the wing of an aircraft off the coast of South Australi Nine
ATSB Chief Commissioner Angus Mitchell said it's not the organisation's job to commit government resources to a new search.
"It sits initially with a state of registry that would then come to the Australian government if there was a request for the Australian government to assist, who then would decide whether or not it was an ATSB role," he said.
The greatest hope lies with Ocean Infinity, which last searched for MH370 in 2018.
The suspected flight path based on a series of radio signals. Nine
The American company has expressed its interest to start a new search in a different part of the Indian Ocean later this year, but it needs the support of the Malaysian government.
"For me, it would feel like finally we finished something that we started so long ago. It's always felt like this open book. I would love nothing more than to have it finish," Waring said.
Finishing the search would mean giving some closure and end a decade of despair for people like Gonzales.
The wife of MH370 chief steward Patrick Gomes has been waiting for answers for 10 years. Nine
"We have to accept it. But we still need to know exactly where he is, and how it happened. We just have to wait," she said.
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