MH370 final report: Families say no new information

A report into Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 has no new findings on the reason for the plane's mysterious disappearance, the families of passengers say.

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Wancheng Wen cries outside the then-Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak's office in Kuala Lumpur a year after MH370 vanished. Source: AFP

Families of passengers on board missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 say an investigation report released to them has no new findings on the reason for the plane's mysterious disappearance.

The report however highlighted mistakes and protocols and guidelines that were not followed, the families told reporters after a briefing on the report on Monday.

The report will be released to the media later in the day.

The Malaysia Airlines jet vanished in March 2014 with 239 people - mostly from China - on board, en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.
A woman writes messages on a banner for missing flight MH370.
A memorial for missing flight MH370 has been put on hold. Source: AAP
No sign of it was found in a 120,000-square kilometre Indian Ocean search zone and the Australian-led hunt, the largest in aviation history, was suspended in January last year.

Earlier Monday, the wife of a man who died on board flight MH370 said she was angry the Malaysian government didn't offer to fly her from Australia for a briefing on the final report until the last minute.

Danica Weeks, who lost her husband Paul in the tragedy, said an offer to fly her to the briefing from Queensland only came on Thursday, which was too little notice for a mother-of-two with a full-time job and pets.

"Unfortunately I'm not there today. A few of us, international families, have been unable to make it in that time frame so I'm very angry about that," Ms Weeks told AAP.

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