Malaysian Plane vanished on March 8,2014 Investigators
are increasingly convinced it was diverted perhaps thousands of miles
off course by someone with deep knowledge of the Boeing 777-200ER and
commercial navigation. The airline's chief executive, Ahmad Jauhari Yahya, said on Monday that this was the co-pilot Fariq Abdul Hamid who spoke the last words an informal "all right, good night"– heard from the cockpit. The
revelation is likely to sharpen suspicions that Hamid and the plane’s
pilot, Zaharie Ahmad Shah, were somehow involved in the aircraft’s
disappearance. On Saturday, police seized a flight simulator from Shah's home and also searched Hamid’s home. SEE MORE AFTER CUT>>>>>
Investigators haven't ruled out hijacking, sabotage, pilot suicide or mass murder, and they are checking the backgrounds of all 227 passengers and 12 crew members, as well as the ground crew, to see if links to terrorists, personal problems or psychological issues could be factors.
The co-pilot's last words were spoken after the system, known as "ACARS", was shut down. That was a sign-off to air traffic controllers at 1.19 am, as the Beijing-bound plane left Malaysian airspace.
The last transmission from the ACARS system – a maintenance computer that relays data on the plane's status – had been received at 1.07 a.m., as the plane crossed Malaysia's northeast coast and headed out over the Gulf of Thailand.
"We don't know when the ACARS was switched off after that," Ahmad Jauhari said. "It was supposed to transmit 30 minutes from there, but that transmission did not come through."
A search unprecedented in its scale is now under way for the plane, covering a area stretching from the shores of the Caspian Sea in the north to deep in the southern Indian Ocean.
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