MH370 Mystery: Grieving Families Launch $3 Million Whistleblower Reward Fund

The grieving relatives of the passengers on board Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 are launching a crowd-funding to raise $3 million as reward for a whistleblower, who can provide key information about the missing plane, USA Today reported.

Sarah Bajc, whose partner Philip Wood boarded the missing plane, told reporters that they are doing active investigation on the matter.

"We are taking matters into our own hands," said Bajc.

"There is no credible evidence that the plane is in the southern Indian Ocean, where planes, boats and a mini-sub have searched in vain for week. I'm convinced that somebody is concealing something," she added.

The campaign will be called "Reward MH370: The Search for the Truth," according to IBT.

The campaign will launch Monday on Indiegogo with minimum donation of $5. It is reported that another $2 million is being funded for hiring private investigators. However, Bajc recognizes the fact that the leads from these investigators might not "go very far."

"Clearly, they've already spent $100 million dollars and they've gotten nothing," she said. "But we're not going to approach it with boats in the ocean, we're going to approach it with human intelligence."

They were inspired by the family members of the Air France plane crash in 2009. The passengers of the said crash were located after two years of investigation.

"There are no promises here, but we believe we need to try something, as if we just sit back on our heels and allow the existing path to continue, I don't think this will ever be solved," she added. "The relatives hope they turn up a whistle-blower who says, 'I know where to find this,' or a flight controller who can access new data, but expect they will also encounter some unethical people."

"I don't care. I just want to find the plane," she said.

The campaign came after Malaysia's acting transport minister Hishammuddin Hussein cornered Boeing and Rolls Royce this week for not being transparent in revealing information about the plane.

"There will come a time when they will come and have to be more open with their position because it is their engines and we base our search and future plans on their advice and to put it squarely on the shoulders of Australia, Malaysia and China is not fair," he told a press conference.

"Raw data means nothing unless it is analysed and advised and we make our decisions based on their advice. There will come a time when they will have to defend the advice they have given us," he added.

By A. Donasales