Steve Almasy
An FBI forensic examination
shows the pilot of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 conducted a flight simulation
on his home computer that closely matched the suspected route of the missing
Boeing 777 in the southern Indian Ocean, according to a Malaysian government
document obtained by New York magazine.
The confidential document
summarizes Malaysia's police investigation into Zaharie Ahmad Shah, the captain
of the plane that has been missing for more than two years.
According to the magazine,
citing the document, the FBI analyzed hard drives from a flight simulator
Zaharie had built using Microsoft Flight Simulator X software. The FBI was able
to recover data points from the program that pointed to the southern Indian
Ocean.
The document is quoted as saying
the simulated flight was made less than a month before MH370 went missing in
March 2014.
CNN has not independently
confirmed the contents of the reported document.
Zaharie, 53, had been a pilot
with Malaysia Airlines since 1981. He was a captain on the 777 for more than 15
years.
He was exceptionally
experienced -- a training captain who was paired with 27-year-old first officer
Fariq Ab Hamid.
Hamid was transitioning to the
777 fleet and MH370 was one of his first flights in that aircraft.
A Factual Report published on
the first anniversary of the plane's disappearance dismissed accusations
against Zaharie. It said "the captain's ability to handle stress at work
and home was good. There were no significant changes in his life style,
interpersonal conflict of family stresses."
The plane disappeared March 8,
2014, on a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. All those on board are presumed
dead.
Searchers have scoured about
110,000 square miles in a remote part of the southern Indian Ocean, hunting for
traces of the passenger jet and the 239 people it was carrying. The
multimillion-dollar effort involved several ships with special equipment
scanning sections of the sea floor.
Several pieces of debris have
been recovered -- one off the coast of Reunion Island, which sits east of
Madagascar, and other pieces in Mauritius, South Africa and Mozambique.
Steve Almasy, CNN,
July 23, 2016
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