PERLOU said:
https://www.amazon.fr/dp/2081422239/ref=cm_sw_r_fa_dp_U_OqrOAbA82PKN0
Vol MH370 - Une vie détournée Broché – 28 février 2018
de Ghyslain Wattrelos (Auteur), Gaëlle Legenne (Auteur)
Le 8 mars 2014, Ghyslain Wattrelos a perdu Laurence, sa femme, Ambre et Hadrien, leurs enfants de 13 et 17 ans, dans la disparition du vol MH370 de la Malaysia Airlines. Que s est-il passé cette nuit-là à bord du Boeing 777? Aujourd hui, un grand nombre de questions demeurent. Comment un avion avec 239 personnes à bord a-t-il pu se volatiliser?
Pas de zone de crash, pas de corps. Confronté à un deuil impossible, pris dans les fils d une enquête remplie de zones grises, Ghyslain consacre chacune de ses journées à la recherche de la vérité, n hésitant pas à prendre des risques, pointant du doigt les incohérences, les mensonges et les silences. Avec une conviction : des gens savent.
Dans un récit bouleversant mêlant l enquête et l intime, Ghyslain Wattrelos livre ses interrogations, ses doutes, sa colère, mais aussi la douleur d un père qui doit la vérité au seul enfant qu il lui reste.
https://www.amazon.fr/dp/2081422239/ref=cm_sw_r_fa_dp_U_OqrOAbAbA82PKN0
Flight MH370 - A Life Diverted Broché - February 28,2018
by Ghyslain Wattrelos (Author),? Gaëlle Legenne (Author)
On March 8,2014, Ghyslain Wattrelos lost Laurence, his wife, Ambre and Hadrien, their 13- and 17-year-old children, in the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370. What happened that night on the Boeing 777? Today, many questions remain unanswered. How could a plane with 239 people on board vanish?
No crash zone, no bodies. Confronted with an impossible mourning, caught in the threads of a survey filled with grey areas, Ghyslain devotes each of his days to the search for the truth, not hesitating to take risks, pointing the finger at inconsistencies, lies and silences. With a conviction: people know.
Ghyslain Wattrelos, in an overwhelming tale mixing investigation and intimacy, reveals his interrogations, doubts, anger, but also the pain of a father who owes the truth to the only child left to him.
Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator
Thanks - so much - for bringing that information to the Forum, PERLOU. Very few articles and book publications have surfaced of what the families have experienced from the disappearance of MH370.
Ghyslain Wattrelos in London on Friday. His wife, daughter and one of his two sons were on Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 when it vanished last March.
Families of Flight 370 Victims Fear Silence as World Moves On (Photo) MARCH 6, 2015
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/07/world/europe/mh370-families-victims-search-for-answers.html
PARIS — Most of the time, Ghyslain Wattrelos believes that his wife and two of his three children are dead.
But that is pretty much all he believes of what the authorities in eight countries have said about
the Malaysian plane that carried his family and disappeared a year ago as if swallowed whole by the earth.
A French engineer and senior business executive, Mr. Wattrelos has no physical proof of their deaths, with 236 others on board Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing last March.
No bodies, not even a trace of debris from the plane. He does not know where they died or how: Laurence, his wife of 24 years; his son Hadrien, who would have turned 18 last month; and his daughter, Ambre, barely a teenager, whose last text message to a friend before boarding the plane was “Soon I will see my papa again.”
For a long time, he had held on to those words, willing them to still come true. They could have crash-landed, he hoped, on one of about 16,000 uninhabited islands in Indonesia. They could be hostages somewhere. Nothing seemed more outlandish than a Boeing 777’s simply vanishing in the 21st century.
The tale of Flight 370 is the greatest unsolved mystery in aviation since Amelia Earhart disappeared with her Lockheed Electra in 1937.
Investigators say they have pieced together a flight path that has the jetliner suddenly veering off its China-bound northward trajectory and doubling back over Malaysia before heading south. That presumed path has resulted in a 23,000-square-mile primary search area about 1,000 miles west of Perth, Australia. But even if it were to prove broadly accurate, it would leave open the question of why the plane found itself on such a spectacular diversion.
Like the families of other victims, most of whom were Chinese or Malaysian, Mr. Wattrelos has spent the past year suspended in a limbo of acceptance, grief, anger and hope fanned by a lack of answers. Distressed by the shrillness of the early news media attention, when cameras besieged his home and the faces of his wife, son and daughter would haunt him from television screens and magazine covers, he now speaks of something that to him is far worse: silence.
“The world has moved on,” Mr. Wattrelos said in a recent interview. “But I can’t. Not until I know what happened.”
When the status of Flight 370 changed from “delayed” to “missing” on flight-tracking sites in the early afternoon of March 8, 2014, Mr. Wattrelos was 28,000 feet in the air. He was on a flight from Paris to Beijing to meet his family for the second half of their vacation. They had been living in Beijing for six years and were about to move back to France.
His plane landed nine hours after Flight 370 was scheduled to arrive. When he turned on his cellphone, a text message from a colleague appeared on his screen: “I am so terribly sorry about your family.”
At the gate, a hostess was waiting for him. She took him to a private room with the French consul, an acquaintance from years of working in China. The consul grabbed his shoulders. “The plane is missing,” he said. “Your family has died,” using the French word “disparu.”
It had never occurred to him what an irony it was that in French the word can mean “dead,” though more often “disappeared.” But in those early hours, there was no ambiguity. He had to call his oldest son, who had stayed behind, studying in Paris. “It was the hardest thing I’ve ever done,” he said.
Hope came later, when no physical evidence of a crash emerged and officials got tangled in contradictory statements.
Mr. Wattrelos remembers them all.
On March 11, the chief of Malaysia’s air force, Gen. Rodzali Daud, was reported as saying that the plane had last been detected way off its route in the Malacca Strait. Later that day, Gen. Rodzali denied he had ever said such a thing. For days, the search focused on the South China Sea, thousands of miles north of today’s primary search area.
On March 15, the Malaysian prime minister, Najib Razak, suggested that someone on board had deliberately turned off the communication systems.
Nine days later, Malaysia Airlines texted the victims’ families, stating “beyond any reasonable doubt that MH370 has been lost and that none of those on board survived.”
At a memorial service that Mr. Wattrelos organized at the French Embassy in Beijing, the school friends of his children spoke about them in the present tense. And when the day came, in May, that he had to pack up the family home and move to France, his son pleaded with him to bring back all his siblings’ toys and clothes.
What will they think if they come back and we have thrown away all their stuff, his son asked.
But Mr. Wattrelos refused. “I did not want to build a shrine,” he said.
Instead he wanted to put up gravestones in the local cemetery, a place to feel close to his family and grieve with his son. But when he called, he was told he could not have a headstone without a death certificate.
He still gets letters and emails from people telling him his family is alive. Some say the plane’s geographic coordinates came to them in a dream. Others, engineers or retired pilots, send dozens of pages of conjecture of what might have happened. Others again have themselves suffered catastrophic grief and simply offer their support. He has been told his wife and children were prisoners in Afghanistan or Diego Garcia, the American military base in the Indian Ocean.
Sometimes, he said, his heart jumps when the phone rings. A small part of him still wants to believe that they are held hostage, “somewhere,” he says.
Officials at the Australian Transport Safety Bureau leading the search say they are confident that the wreckage will be found by May, when the primary search area will have been combed by underwater drones.
To Mr. Wattrelos such pronouncements, after a year of uncertainty, are meaningless, even insulting.
In January, the Malaysian government announced that the plane’s disappearance was officially considered an “accident.” Mr. Wattrelos received an email from the authorities telling him he could now apply for death certificates and compensation.
“How dare they say it was an accident, just like that?” he said.
“They would not be offering us death certificates if they didn’t know that my wife and children are dead,” he said. “That’s the part I believe. But if they know that much, what else do they know? And why aren’t they telling us?”
Together with an American teacher, Sarah Bajc, whose partner was on the plane, and a handful of other family members of victims, Mr. Wattrelos wants to motivate a whistle-blower to speak up. Last year, they made a video and raised just over $100,000, which was quickly spent on private investigators. They want to try again. “If we offer a million, maybe someone will speak up,” he said.
He does not have a single theory of what happened. Was it an attempted terrorist attack? A military exercise that accidentally brought down the plane? Did the Western authorities externally take control of the plane and force it to land in the water because someone or something dangerous was believed to be on board?
Whatever happened, Mr. Wattrelos said, “someone somewhere knows something.”
“It’s too big,” he said. “There are too many countries involved, and I hope someone comes forward.”
When he is not peering over oceanic maps and emailing with Ms. Bajc about the next step in their campaign, Mr. Wattrelos tries to live a normal life, for his son’s sake. Before returning to work last spring, he had called his human resources department and requested that no one talk to him about his loss.
“That was very helpful,” he said.
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