>..“As far as the families were concerned, the plane had been hijacked by terrorists, the Malaysian government was negotiating with them, and we weren’t telling them. I knew that wasn’t happening — there had been zero communications from MH370.” For the first 48 hours, Dunleavy and the airline’s team of “care-givers” didn’t sleep, dashing between the hotel’s ballroom and chaotic press conferences. “No one went to bed. But we had no news. Conspiracy theories were coming out — blaming Chinese scientists on board, the mangosteen [4.6 tons of the exotic fruit were on board], all this rubbish. Every news channel had some ‘expert’ — who’d never been to Malaysia, and had no idea about our planes — coming up with stories about what may have happened. Then a family member would latch on to one of those ideas that appealed to them. There would be 50 different people all arguing about 50 different scenarios, and I’m saying — through a translator — ‘I can’t tell you what happened until we find the plane’, over and over.” <
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