Ticking off the government for giving a "closure without closure" statement on the fate of Flight MH370, DAP senior leader Lim Kit Siang has urged the government to move faster and set up a parliamentary select committee (PSC).

In a statement, he noted that everyone is looking for answers to the “1,001 questions” about the aircraft, which has been missing since March 8.

It is now presumed to have “gone down’ in the Indian Ocean, and an international recovery exercise is underway to look for the black box.

“Answers to all questions, confusion and controversy need to be given, not only to next-of-kin of the affected passengers and crew and to all Malaysians, but also to the international society," Lim said.

He said the PSE should determine why there was no immediate follow-up action when the aircraft disappeared from the civil radar in the first hour.

It should also find out why it had taken more than a week to move the search and rescue operation from the South China Sea to the ‘northern and southern corridors’.

The Malaysian Airlines flight was Beijing bound with 239 passengers on board when it went incommunicado less than an hour later.