Showing posts with label Zaharie Ahmad Shah. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Zaharie Ahmad Shah. Show all posts

Sunday, March 16, 2014

ABC News: "Malaysia Airlines Jet Made 'Tactical Aviation Maneuvers': Law Enforcement Officials"

ABC News: "Malaysia Airlines Jet Made 'Tactical Aviation Maneuvers': Law Enforcement Officials"

March 16, 2014 9/11 , ABC News 0 Comments
PHOTO: The search area for Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 now includes two corridors: one stretching from approximately the border of Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan to northern Thailand and another stretching across Indonesia to the southern Indian Ocean.

The search area for Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370
now includes two corridors: one stretching from approximately
 the border of Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan to northern 
Thailand and another stretching across Indonesia
 to the southern Indian Ocean.

By Gloria Rivera, Josh Margolin, Pierre Thomas and Dan Good


U.S. law enforcement and intelligence officials are focusing on the possibility that at least one of the Malaysia Airlines pilots is responsible for the disappearance of flight MH 370 after new information revealed the plane performed "tactical evasion maneuvers" after it disappeared from radar, two senior law enforcement officials told ABC News today.
U.S. authorities believe only a person with extensive flight or engineering experience could have executed the maneuvers. They also are suspicious of what appeared to be attempts to evade radar.
After the plane's transponder -- which reports the plane's location and altitude -- was turned off about 1:20 a.m. last Saturday, the plane was picked up by military radar as it turned back towards Malaysia and passed above Peninsular Malaysia before heading into the Strait of Malacca.

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Saturday, March 15, 2014

WaPo: "Missing 777 May Have Flown On For 7 Hrs" --"investigation had 'refocused' to look at the crew and passengers."

WaPo: "Missing 777 May Have Flown On For 7 Hrs" --"investigation had 'refocused' to look at the crew and passengers."

March 15, 2014 Boeing 777 , Malaysia Flight 370 0 Comments

missing-flight-malaysia-airlines-boeing-777-ftrBy ,  and , Published: March 14


 KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Police on Saturday searched the homes of the pilots who were in control of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 shortly before it disappeared more than a week ago as investigators sharpened their focus on the possibility that the plane fell victim to foul play.

 The plane captain, Zaharie Ahmad Shah, 53, has been a Malaysia Airlines pilot for more than three decades, logging 18,000 hours in the air. There was no indication Saturday that he or co-pilot Fariq Abdul Hamid, 27, had been targeted by investigators.

 The search came the same day that Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak said the plane’s disappearance was “deliberate” and evidence emerged that it appeared to have flown for seven hours after its radar transponder and satellite uplink went dead, apparently turned off by someone in the cockpit.

 “Clearly, the search for MH370 has entered a new phase,” Najib said.

 But there was no explanation of who — crew members, hijackers or terrorists — might have commandeered the Boeing 777. And while the investigation tilted toward what one U.S. official called “a criminal event,” there were cautions that until the plane is found, all possibilities remain on the table.

 In the most comprehensive account to date of the plane’s fate, Najib said the investigation had “refocused” to look at the crew and passengers. He said satellite data showed that the plane could have last made contact anywhere along one of two corridors: one stretching from northern Thailand toward the Kazakhstan-Turkmenistan border, the other, more southern corridor stretching from Indonesia to the remote Indian Ocean.

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