When the plane carrying 239 people disappeared from radar screens on March 8, 2014, after taking off from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, Grace was 26 years old and in college.
Despite the largest search in aviation history, covering 120,000 square kilometres of the southern Indian Ocean seabed, only a few pieces of the Boeing 777-200ER have been found.
"Every year that passes without finding the plane is another year of agonizing waiting," Grace from Malaysia, who did not want to be identified, told AFP.
In this photo taken on February 29, 2024, Grace Nathan, a relative of one of the missing victims on Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 that disappeared in 2014, speaks to AFP during an interview in Damansara, Selangor.
Ahead of Sunday's 10th anniversary commemoration of the air disaster, Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim said he was ready to reopen the search for the missing plane if "convincing" evidence emerged.
The pain is a hundred times greater
Liu Shuang Fong's 28-year-old son, Li Yan Lin, is returning to Beijing because his parents want to introduce him to a future bride. He has never met her.
Liu, 67, cried at a gathering of victims' families in Malaysia on Sunday to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the plane's disappearance: "We decided to move to a new place to ease our emotions."
"I still have sleepless nights waiting for his knock on the door. I think about my son every day," she said.
For others, the pain of the past decade has been many times worse than their initial pain.
Jiang Hui, whose mother was on the missing flight, said: "I dare not think back to the journey that has passed 10 years ago. The torment and damage over the past 10 years, all the damage to my relatives has far exceeded the initial damage. Not two or three times worse, but ten to a hundred times worse," he said in Beijing.
The photo was taken on February 29, 2024 at Jiang Hui's home in Beijing. His mother was on the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.
Meanwhile, relatives of MH370 passengers and crew are facing uncertainty about what happened to their loved ones.
Jacquita Gonzales, whose husband was a crew member, said the only way to deal with their grief was to find the plane. "That's why the search is so important," Gonzales said at a memorial service in Kuala Lumpur, adding: "Don't let it remain a mystery."
"We need to know"
The plane's disappearance has long been the subject of numerous theories - ranging from the credible to the outlandish - including that veteran pilot Zaharie Ahmad Shah was the mastermind.
A 2018 report into the tragedy released by Malaysia pointed to errors by air traffic control and said the plane's route had been manually changed but drew no firm conclusions.
Malaysian Transport Minister Anthony Loke confirmed he will meet officials from US-based ocean exploration company Ocean Infinity to discuss the possibility of resuming the search.
Ocean Infinity launched an unsuccessful search in 2018 after a large-scale Australian-led operation failed to locate the plane nearly three years later. That search was suspended in January 2017.
Blaine Gibson, the American wreck hunter and former lawyer who found debris believed to be from MH370, said finding out the “truth” about what happened would benefit not only the families but the public as well.
Despite the largest search in aviation history, covering 120,000 square kilometres of the southern Indian Ocean seabed, only a few pieces of the Boeing 777-200ER have been found.
"We all need to know when we get on the plane, we're not going to disappear," he said. "Malaysia needs answers too. They need to find the plane and put it all behind them and move on."
Want to make mom proud
For a long time, Grace was determined to make her mother, Anne Daisy, who was 56 when she boarded the flight, proud if she miraculously returned.
She topped her law class in England, became a barrister in Kuala Lumpur, got married and had children.
Grace, now 36 and a spokeswoman for relatives of MH370 victims, said the incident had become part of her identity, something she could hardly let go of.
“People always recognise me as the girl whose mother was on the plane. I have worked very hard to become a lawyer in my own right… as an individual and separate from MH370.”
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