(CNN)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 feet in a remote part of the southern
Indian Ocean, hunting for traces of the passenger jet and the 239
people it was carrying. The multi-million-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.
http://edition.cnn.com/2016/07/22/asia/mh370-pilot-simulation/
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