The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is awaiting the arrival of the flight simulator belonging to the pilot of missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, for them to retrieve data Malaysian investigators say had been “deleted”.
A Fox News report citing unnamed US law enforcement officials said FBI agents in Malaysia requested the bureau’s headquarters in Quantico, Virginia for their computer forensics team to extract the lost information contained within the simulator.
The flight simluator was retrieved from the Shah Alam home of Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah on Saturday, March 15, one week after the disappearance of Flight MH370 and on the day Malaysian authorities announced the flight divergence and disappearance of the jetliner and all 239 people onboard was the result of deliberate action.
On Wednesday, Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar tolf the press that three simulation games had been installed in the simulator, and that the data logs of all three programs were wiped from the machine on February 3.
On Tuesday, Malay-language daily Berita Harian reported that Zaharie’s flight simlulator had contained the runway data for five airstrips in the Indian Ocean, one of the search areas being scoured for traces of Flight MH370’s whereabouts.
This report was not corroborated by investigators.
Malaysia law enforcement officials previously informed the US counterparts that nothing suspicious was found on the personal computers of both Zaharie and his co-pilot, Fariq Ab Hamid.
The search for the missing plane has now been missing for nearly two weeks continues along two “corridors”, but satellite images of debris 2,500km off Western Australia is the “best lead” investigators have at the moment of finding the aircraft and its passengers.
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Story: The Malay Mail Online
