Today marks exactly two months since Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 disappeared during its journey from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.
We're still a long way from knowing what happened to the jet and the passengers on board, but the New Straits Times reports this morning that Malaysian Life Insurers has already paid out 14.2 million Malaysian Ringgit (£2.5 million) in compensation to next-of-kin.
The president of the Life Insurance Association of Malaysia Vincent Kwo said: "We understand the grief of the family members and are ready to make payouts faster and make it easier for the next-of-kin to claim."
He said they had waived the requirement for death certificates, and try to make payments within a week of documents being recevied.
One in four Americans believe that Malaysia did a bad job of handling the disappearance of the plane.
A survey by CNN also found that one in five also still believes that there could be survivors from the missing plane and more than half (52 per cent) said we will eventually find out what happened to the plane.
Two thirds of them believed the pilots or crew were involved in the disappearance.
Experts are to look again at the flight path calculations of flight MH370.
The data from satellites and radars was examined, first giving a huge arc that stretched from Kazakhstan all the way down to the southern Indian Ocean.
That was later narrowed down to the current search area which has already seen 4.6million square kilometres of ocean scoured.
Angus Houston, head of the search, said: "We've got to this stage of the process where it's very sensible to go back and have a look at all of the data that has been gathered, all of the analysis that has been done and and make sure there's no flaws in it, the assumptions are right, the analysis is right, and the deductions and conclusions are right."
By Sam Adams, Richard Hartley-Parkinson
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