In other development, despite its determination and sincere intention of finding the remains, or whatever is left of it, of the ill-fated Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370 that disappeared on March 8, 2014, the Malaysian government and three separate organizations still became the subject of a lawsuit filed in court in August last year by five family members of victims of the accident.
On December 28, the Malaysian government has filed an application with the court to strike out the lawsuit, citing that it is frivolous and constituted an abuse of the court process.
The lawsuit claimed that negligence caused the accident and that the Department of Civil Aviation of Malaysia failed to take appropriate action after contact with Flight MH370 was lost.
The complaint also said that the airline company failed to ensure that the plane was in good condition before takeoff. The case was filed through Ngeow & Tan at the High Court Registry.
Malaysian Airlines Berhad, which was also at the receiving end of the complaint, stated that it was only corporatized in November 2014, about eight months after the flight went missing which means that it should not be part of the respondents.
The company claimed that it was not a successor of the Malaysia Airline System Berhad. In addition, the Royal Malaysian Air Force has also been named as a defendant to the case.