Just over 100 days since the Malaysia Airlines Flight MH 370 went missing on March 8 and families of the victims are finally given compensation for their loss and grievances. A most recent report from a New Zealand oil rigger claims that he saw the aircraft burning off the Vietnamese coastline, this  prompted search teams to expand operations towards the Andaman Sea.

Mike McKay, the New Zealander who works for Songa Mercur oil rig, reported a suspected MH 370 going down over the shores of Vietnam at the same time the Malaysian Airlines flight was reported missing. "I believe I saw the Malaysian Airlines plane come down. The timing is right," McKay wrote in an email sent to Idemitsu, the oil rig operator. He detailed that he immediately took notice of the plane because it appeared like it was on fire.

McKay's statement is also corroborated by another similar report from British sailor Katherine Tee, 41. "I saw something that looked like a plane on fire. That's what I thought it was. Then, I thought I must be mad. It caught my attention because I had never seen a plane with orange lights before, so I wondered what they were," Phuket Gazette reported.

As a response to the tragedy, six Malaysian families and one Chinese family have received initial compensation amounting to $50,000, based on records released by Malaysia deputy minister Hamzah Zainudin. The International Civial Aviation Organization provides bereaved families payments of up to US $175,000 regardless of the type of crash, reported Daily Mail UK.

But families who are waiting for tangible news from search teams insist that they are not after the money, but solid evidence of where they can locate their loved ones. Zhang Qian, wife of the missing Wang Houbin, expressed her sentiment over slow developments of information. 

"We do not care about compensation but please let us know more information. We've gone from days of wearing down jackets to now, summer, and we are still waiting," Qian said.