Malaysia Airlines flight: investigators find nothing suspicious in pilot's flight simulator
Lindsay Murdoch March 22, 2014
Kuala Lumpur: Forensic experts examining the home flight simulator of Malaysia Airlines pilot Zaharie Ahmad Shah have found nothing suspicious, collapsing the only significant lead investigators have been pursuing to try to solve the mystery disappearance of MH370, police sources say. Investigators became suspicious last week when they discovered Mr Zaharie, 53, had deleted logs on a computer linked to the simulator on February 3, almost five weeks before the Boeing 777 with 239 people on board inexplicably turned around during a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, and was still flying more than seven hours later. The computer hard drive was sent to FBI experts in the US to search for evidence of some kind of hijacking plot. Mr Zaharie and his co-pilot Fariq Abdul Hamid, 27, have been a key focus of investigations after Malaysian authorities said they believed a “deliberate action” by someone on board caused the plane to lose communications and then turn around from its scheduled flight path. Intensive scrutiny of Mr Zaharie’s background has failed uncover any links to extremists groups or terrorism. Investigations have also failed to find anything suspicious in the background of Mr Fariq, who was due soon to marry another pilot. Malaysia's acting transport minister Hishammuddin Hussein was expected to announce that police had found nothing suspicious on the simulator at a media briefing in Kuala Lumpur late on Saturday, Malaysian time.
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