MH370 Pilot Zaharie Ahmad Shah Had Indian Ocean Course Plotted On Home Flight Simulator

Zaharie Ahmad Shah, pilot of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, had a route plotted into his home flight simulator, which ended in the Indian Ocean, officials confirmed on Thursday.

MH370 PilotZaharie Ahmad Shah Plotted On Home Flight Simulator

“The MH370 captain’s flight simulator showed someone had plotted a course to the southern Indian Ocean,” Joint Agency Coordination Center spokesman Scott Mashford wrote in an email to CNN.

Mashford did not state who may have plotted the route.

However, this confirmation, validates reports that Zaharie’s home simulator contained a route similar to the one which investigators believe the MH370 took before disappearing.

The JACC notes that the “seventh arc” search area in the southern Indian Ocean, calculated by using satellite communications and aircraft systems, remains the best estimate of where the plane went down.

Small pieces of debris believed to be from the plane have washed ashore in multiple places, but the bulk of the aircraft still has not been found.

“For the purposes of defining the underwater search area, the relevant facts and analysis most closely match a scenario in which there was no pilot intervening in the latter stages of the flight,” the recent JACC media release explains.

“The simulator information shows only the possibility of planning,” the release adds. “It does not reveal what happened on the night of the aircraft’s disappearance, nor where the aircraft is located.”