New book adds to anger, frustration for wife of MH370 passenger - Malaysian Insider

Ana Ghoib Syeikh Malaya 6:04 PTG
An e-book released yesterday has raised the ire of the wife of a passenger who was onboard the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, the Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) reported today.

Danica Weeks, wife of New Zealander Paul Weeks, said she was disgusted by the fictional work written by a Malaysian-based New Zealand author, who goes by the pen name Scott Maka. TMI


The release of the e-book titled "MH370, a novella" also coincides with the third month anniversary of the disappearance of the plane while on a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8 with 227 passengers and 12 crew onboard.

According to SMH, Weeks said releasing a book so soon after the tragedy and without information on what happened made her angry.
"It was hurtful to the families of the people on board the flight.

"I'd rather they'd put their efforts to helping them find the truth, to be honest," she was quoted as saying by SMH. "We're going to be spending the rest of our lives doing that."

She said that any books or movies on the mystery of flight MH370 must only be written or made after all the information was available.

Meanwhile, SMH also reported Maka as saying that he never intended for the relatives of the missing families to be the book's audience or even find out about it.

"I wasn't writing it for the families," he said, while acknowledging feeling some regret over the comments from Weeks and wishing to apologise to her.

"I'm saddened to hear that she's reacted like that, I'm upset that she's upset."

Maka further explained his reasons for writing such a novella, saying it followed a harrowing flight between Malaysia and Vietnam just a week after the disappearance of MH370.

"I was damn scared. Flying doesn't usually bother me, but knowing that another aircraft had just vanished on the same flight-path made me very, very jittery," SMH quoted him as saying.

This incident inspired him to think up of possible causes for the flight's disappearance.

He added that by the time his flight landed, he came up with a "fascinating scenario" as an idea for the book.

"MH370, a novella" is the 45-year-old Maka's first to be published and has already been downloaded a few hundred times, SMH reported.

He described the novella as "a twist-type thriller" focusing on a female passenger's involvement in international intrigue.

Meanwhile, Weeks was also reported as saying that she supports the crowd-funding campaign to pay for private investigators and reward whistleblower for information on the disappearance of MH370.

"We've lost trust so we've thought outside the box," she said referring to the little information that has been coming from Malaysian authorities, as well as how the families and relatives are tired of waiting for official investigations.

She hoped someone would came forward with a positive lead on what happened to the plane. Finding the plane and finding out what happened would give families the closure they needed, she said.

"We're desperate, we need to try anything," SMH reported her as saying.

 

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