Families of missing Malaysia’s flight MH370 seek compensation in Beijing court

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A Beijing court on Monday (Nov 27) began hearing the case involving compensation sought by the Chinese relatives of victims on board Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, which mysteriously disappeared over the South China Sea almost a decade ago.  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00 The Chaoyang District People's Court in Beijing on Monday began hearing the case involving

00:07 compensation sought by relatives of the passengers who vanished in the Malaysia Airlines Flight

00:12 MH370 tragedy.

00:15 The plaintiffs are demanding compensation from Malaysia Airlines, Boeing, Rolls-Royce

00:20 and Allianz Insurance Group, among others.

00:23 The court did not release details of the case, but reports said more than 40 relatives are

00:29 seeking between 10 million yuan and 80 million yuan each in compensation.

00:34 "It's been 10 years since the court finally opened the case.

00:40 We feel relieved and it's a turning point.

00:46 But the deterioration of family's living conditions in the past 10 years, many families

00:55 have been sick and have no money, and they may have left us.

01:01 It's really sad for us."

01:03 "We go to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to appeal every day.

01:07 No one is following us.

01:08 No matter how you say, they will do as you say.

01:09 It doesn't work at all.

01:10 They are just fooling us.

01:11 If you are lucky, you will continue to fight.

01:12 If you are not lucky, you will die.

01:13 Many families have died.

01:14 We can't fight.

01:15 Our bodies have been restricted for 10 years.

01:16 It's been almost 10 years."

01:25 The flight MH370 disappeared over the South China Sea after taking off from Kuala Lumpur

01:30 International Airport to Beijing on March 8, 2014.

01:36 All the 239 people on board the aircraft were presumed dead after its disappearance for

01:41 almost a decade.

01:43 More than 150 passengers are of the Chinese nationality.

01:46 The flight MH370 was reported to have been taken off from Beijing on March 8, 2014.

01:47 The flight MH370 was reported to have been taken off from Beijing on March 8, 2014.

01:48 The flight MH370 was reported to have been taken off from Beijing on March 8, 2014.

01:49 The flight MH370 was reported to have been taken off from Beijing on March 8, 2014.

01:50 The flight MH370 was reported to have been taken off from Beijing on March 8, 2014.

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