DHAKA: Cheng Li Ping is afraid to tell her sons their father might never come home.
"My heart can`t handle it. I don`t want to hurt my children," the Chinese woman told CNN Wednesday as she waited in Kuala Lumpur for evidence about what happened to her husband and the 238 others who were aboard Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, CNN reported.
Cheng says she cannot bring herself to accept that her husband is dead, even after authorities announced there were no survivors.
"I can`t trust the Malaysian government. I can`t work now because all I can think about is my husband and my children," she told CNN`s Sara Sidner in Kuala Lumpur. "I don`t have strength. ... My head is a mess."
Malaysian officials say they can tell you how Flight 370 ended. It crashed into the Indian Ocean, they`ll say, citing complicated math as proof.
They can tell you when it probably happened -- on March 8, sometime between 8:11 and 9:15 a.m. (7:11 to 8:15 p.m. ET March 7), handing you a sheet with extraordinarily technical details about satellite communications technology.
What they still can`t tell you is why, or precisely where, or show you a piece of the wreckage.
All those uncertainties are too much for Cheng and other relatives of people aboard the plane.
In Beijing, outraged family members marched to the Malaysian Embassy to denounce the airline, the country and just about everything involved with an investigation that has transfixed the world and vexed experts.
Steve Wang, whose mother was aboard the flight, told reporters he felt there was "no evidence" that the passenger jet crashed in the Indian Ocean.
"If you find something: OK, we accept," he said. "But nothing -- just from the data, just from analysis."
Where`s the proof?
Cheng says the authorities` answers to questions don`t make sense.
"They have been hiding the truth," she said. "Even though they know the truth, they have been delaying it and missed out on the golden time for the search."
Malaysia Airlines says it is giving the families all the information it can and is sharing it as quickly as possible. And authorities say they know the news is hard to take. But Tuesday, acting Malaysian Transportation Minister Hishammuddin Hussein defended the decision to release the analysis and the heartbreaking conclusions that flowed from it.
"It was released out of a commitment to openness and respect for the relatives, two principles which have guided the investigation," he said.
That investigation now focuses on an area of the southern Indian Ocean off Australia`s west coast, where authorities believe the plane went down after a long, odd, unexplained flight that should have ended hours before in Beijing.
Searching there resumed Wednesday after bad weather grounded planes for a day.
Hishammuddin said authorities have stopped searching for the plane altogether along a northern arc that stretched from Vietnam to Kazakhstan. Analysis of data by British satellite company Inmarsat and British accident investigators show the Boeing 777-200ER was heading south at last contact, he said.
How `groundbreaking` number crunching found path of Flight 370
Commercial satellite data from a U.S. company, first analyzed by Australian officials, as well as satellite data from China and France, have turned up evidence of debris bobbing in the general area where authorities believe the plane went down.
Australian and Chinese surveillance planes have both reported seeing debris on the water, but so far nothing has been recovered or definitively linked to the missing flight.
Authorities cautioned that despite the narrowing the search area, it could still be some time before crews find any sign of the airplane.
"We`re not searching for a needle in a haystack," Mark Binskin, vice chief of the Australian Defence Force, told reporters. "We`re still trying to define where the haystack is."
BDST: 0852 HRS, MAR 26, 2014
