The grieving family of missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 have criticised the timing of a new book that claims the plane may have been accidentally shot down and the search for survivors covered up. The family of missing Brisbane man Rod Burrows say they are at pains to understand how still, after 71 days of ongoing global search efforts, no one knows what happened to the missing plane which vanished on March 8 and how a book could be released so soon after. Flight MH370: The Mystery makes the incredible claim that the airline was shot down by US-Thai joint strike fighters accidentally as part of a training drill gone horribly wrong. The book goes on to claim the search party was purposely  sent in the wrong direction as part of a cover up.
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New book Flight MH370: The Mystery claims the plane was shot down accidentally and its tracks covered up
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Author Nigel Cawthorne tells relatives of missing passengers they will never know what happened
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Grieving family of missing man say book's been released too soon
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Book claims tracking software on plane was too basic
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Flight MH370: The Mystery, by Nigel Cawthorne, is out now (£7.99, John Blake Publishing).
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