Malaysia informs families by TEXT that their loved ones are dead and the missing jet DID come down in the Indian Ocean

Relatives of passengers and crew have been informed of the 'heartbreaking' news that Flight MH370 ended in the southern Indian Ocean, the Malaysian Prime Minister has announced. Najib Razak told a press conference new analysis by the UK Air Accidents Investigation Branch and tracking firm Inmarsat indicated the flight ended in the southern Indian Ocean.Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 vanished from civilian radar screens less than an hour after take-off from Kuala Lumpur for Beijing with 239 people on board on March 8. No confirmed sighting of the plane has been made since, but much debris has been found in remote waters off Australia which might be part of the missing plane.

Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak today said a new analysis of satellite data shows that the missing Malaysia Airlines plane plunged into the southern Indian Ocean

Relatives of passengers aboard Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 have been informed the plane ended its journey in the southern Indian Ocean

The announcement was made as an Australian navy ship was on its way today to retrieve two new objects spotted by military aircraft and marked by flares in the search for the missing Malaysia Airlines jet

Dressed in a black suit, Najib announced the news in a brief statement to reporters today, saying the information was based on an unprecedented analysis of satellite data from Inmarsat. He said the data indicated the plane flew 'to a remote location, far from any possible landing sites'. He said: 'It is therefore with deep sadness and regret that I must inform you that, according to this new data, Flight MH370 ended in the southern Indian Ocean.' Relatives of passengers in Beijing had been called to a hotel near the airport to hear the news, and some 50 of them gathered there. Afterward, they filed out of a conference room in heart-wrenching grief. One woman collapsed and fell on her knees, crying 'My son! My son!'

Medical teams arrived at the Lido hotel with several stretchers and one elderly man was carried out of the conference room on one of them, his face covered by a jacket. Minutes later, a middle-aged woman was taken out on another stretcher, her face ashen and her blank eyes seemingly staring off into a distance.

Terrible scenes of grief as relatives hear fate of Malaysian jet

Most of them refused to speak to gathered reporters and some of them lashed out in anger, urging journalists not to film the scene. Security guards restrained a man with close-cropped hair as he kicked a TV cameraman and shouted, 'Don't film. I'll beat you to death!' Wang Zhen, whose father and mother, Wang Linshi and Xiong Yunming, were aboard the flight as part of a group of Chinese artists touring Malaysia, heard the announcement on television from another hotel where he had been staying. He said some of the relatives had received a text message in English from the airliner advising of the findings to be announced in a late-night news conference by the Malaysian Prime Minister. Read

Culled from the Dailymail