Liow says is unaware of MH370 'murder suicide'
Published on: Saturday, July 30, 2016
Putra Jaya: The government is not aware of claims that Flight MH370 pilot Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah had run a simulation of the southern Indian Ocean air route one week before the jet disappeared, Transport Minister Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai said today.The Malaysia Airlines flight had 239 people on board when it mysteriously disappeared on March 8, 2014. Investigators have been searching the southern section of the Indian Ocean, believing the jumbo jet ended up there.ADVERTISEMENT "We are not aware and that is not evidence proving him flying that route," Liow told reporters after attending the signing ceremony between Malaysia Airlines and Boeing over the purchase of 50 new aircrafts.Suggestions that Zaharie may have deliberately steered the plane to the Southern Indian Ocean in a "murder suicide" resurfaced recently after New York magazine quoted a confidential Federal Bureau of Intelligence (FBI) report noting the flight simulation path on Zaharie's personal flight simulator being of interest."Criminal investigation is still ongoing. So we leave it to the investigation team," he said.He also stressed that the government has "no evidence" on the matter.ADVERTISEMENT Search operations are still ongoing more than two years after the flight, which was en route to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur, disappeared on March 8, 2014.This is not the first time speculations over Zaharie's role in the plane's disappearance has surfaced.
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Following the flight's disappearance, the murder-suicide claim was among the theories floated regarding the fate of the plane.There were reports claiming Zaharie was upset after PKR de facto leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim was found guilty of sodomy just one day before the flight.Stay up-to-date by following Daily Express’s Telegram channel.
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The claims were recycled on the first anniversary of MH370's disappearance, with BBC Magazine quoting an experienced Boeing 777 pilot, Captain Simon Hardy as saying that all facts relating to the disappearance pointed to a pilot suicide.The Malaysian police had investigated Zaharie's flight simulator before in 2014 but cleared him of any terror links.