MH370 relatives travels Madagascar in search of debris

Relatives are pointing out that it is now more than 1,000 days since the mysterious disappearance of MH370

Relatives of those who died on board Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 are travelling to Madagascar to lobby for the search for debris from the missing aircraft to be expanded.

They said in advance of their trip that if necessary, they would take the search into their own hands. All debris thought to be from the plane has so

far been found in east Africa. The plane disappeared on a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing in March 2014 with 239 people on board. It is thought that missing jet is most likely to have crashed into the southern Indian Ocean.

Several pieces of debris, including this part of a wing flap, have washed up on Africa's east coast

Grace Subathirai Nathan (left) and Chinese national Jiang Hui - who also lost a relative onboard MH370 - want the search for debris to be more systematic

Campaigner Grace Subathirai Nathan, whose mother was on the plane, is making the self-funded journey with six other MH370 relatives - three from Malaysia, two from China and one from France. "It has fallen into our hands to take on this search upon ourselves," she told reporters at Kuala Lumpur airport. "After repeated requests for mobilisation of a search along the east African coastline, nothing has been done to date." The families of those on board the flight say that the search for wreckage has not been systematic and that some possible findings appear to have been ignored.