Co-k frpilot last to speak from jet
The search for the Malaysia Airlines passenger jet that
disappeared without a trace more than a week ago was on Monday expanded
to include a wider area spanning Australia to Kazakhstan.
Malaysia’s
Transport Minister Hishammuddin Hussein told reporters here that
Australia and Indonesia were leading the search from the west of Sumatra
to the south of the Indian Ocean. China and Kazakhstan are searching in
the northern corridor from Laos to the Caspian Sea.
Flight
MH370 with 239 people on board disappeared on March 8 en route to
Beijing from Kuala Lampur. Most of the passengers of the Boeing 777-200
were Chinese nationals.
In addition to hijack,
investigators are exploring the possibility of a suicide bid by the
pilot or co-pilot, sabotage, kidnapping and terrorism.
A
police source said investigators were studying the flight simulator
found at the home of pilot Zaharie Ahmad Shah, 52. The experienced pilot
is a member of Malaysia’s Opposition party, whose leader, Anwar
Ibrahim, was convicted of sodomy a few hours before the jet disappeared.
“So far there’s no evidence politics was involved in this incident,” the source said on condition of anonymity.
Malaysia
Airlines said co-pilot Fariq Abdul Hamid was most likely to have made
the final spoken communication with the ATC in Kuala Lumpur before the
aircraft disappeared from the radar.
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