Daughter of MH370 victim recounts missed milestones: Wedding, birth of children
A decade of heartache: MH370 victim's daughter forges life marked by tragedy
SHAH ALAM - Ten years after Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 vanished, the profound loss and uncertainty continue to grip families of the 239 victims.
Grace Subathirai Nathan, 36, embodies the enduring pain felt by those who lost loved ones on that tragic day.
"I graduated law school, got married, built a legal career, and have two children.
"But all these milestones were tinged with the absence of my beloved mother, Anne Catherine Daisy," Grace told Sinar Daily when contacted.
MH370's disappearance on March 8, 2014, remains one of aviation's biggest enigmas.
The Boeing 777 vanished during a routine Kuala Lumpur-Beijing flight, sparking a massive multinational search across vast swathes of the southern Indian Ocean.
Despite being the largest search in aviation history, covering 120,000 square kilometres, only fragments of the plane were ever recovered.
Grace, just 26 and a university student when the plane disappeared, has navigated life's milestones without her mother, who was 56 at the time.
"The ache in my heart for her hasn't faded. She missed many important moments in my life," she said.
Excelling in her law studies in the UK, Grace became a lawyer in Kuala Lumpur, married and started a family.
However, the MH370 tragedy has become an inseparable part of her identity.
"People often saw me solely as 'the girl whose mother was on MH370'.
"It's been a struggle to establish myself as a lawyer, as an individual separate from that event," Grace told AFP.
Renewed hope flickers for the families.
Malaysia recently announced its willingness to resume the search, with Transport Minister Anthony Loke determined to convince the Cabinet to approve a contract with Ocean Infinity for renewed search operations.
