DHAKA: Malaysia will not rest until it can give answers to the distraught families of those on board missing Flight MH370.

Malaysia prime minister Najib Razak said on Thursday, admitting the search was a ‘gargantuan’ challenge, reports The Straits Times.

International efforts to find any sign of the Malaysia Airlines plane which vanished on March 8 have so far failed, but search coordinator Australia says there are no imminent plans to abandon the operation.

‘We owe it to the grieving families to ... give them comfort and closure to this rather tragic event and the world expects us to do our level best,’ Najib said as he toured the search base in Perth.

‘We want to find answers. We want to provide comfort to the families and we will not rest until answers are indeed found.’

Najib said the hunt for the Boeing 777 was probably the largest mission to locate an aircraft ever staged and he was confident it would provide answers to the baffling mystery.

BDST: 1946 HRS, APR 03, 2014