Families of passengers who were on the missing Malaysian flight MH370 on Sunday launched a campaign to give a reward to the person who will come forward as a whistle blower and help to solve the mystery of the missing airliner.
The “Reward MH370” campaign launches on fundraising website Indiegogo and aims to raise at least $5 million “to encourage a whistleblower to come forward with information”, the families said in a press release.
Search efforts have yielded no trace of the jet which disappeared on March 8 en route from Kuala Lumpur o Beijing.
It is believed the jet crashed into the Indian ocean.
“We are convinced that somewhere, someone knows something, and we hope this reward will entice him or her to come forward,” said Ethan Hunt, a technology company chief who is heading the “Reward MH370” project.
Sarah Bajc, partner of American passenger Philip Wood, said a handful of families were behind the campaign to look at the unprecedented aviation mystery with “a fresh set of eyes”.
“Governments and agencies have given it their best shot but have failed to turn up a single shred of evidence, either because of a faulty approach or due to intentional misdirection by one or more individuals,” she said in the release.
The search is being led by Malaysia and Australia who confirmed the hunt for the plane was to continue.
An international team is now determining an expanded search zone of up to 60,000 square kilometres (24,000 square miles) based on where the aircraft last communicated with an Inmarsat satellite.
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