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THE PILOT WHO flew missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, which is believed to have gone off route and crashed in the Indian Ocean, conducted a simulation of a similar path just weeks prior, New York magazine has reported.
Zaharie Ahmad Shah, the highly respected pilot at the helm of the plane, used an elaborate home-built flight simulator to steer himself over the Strait of Malacca and into the remote southern Indian ocean, a course with a striking resemblance to the route MH370 is believed to have taken.
The finding, which casts a shadow of suspicion over the 53-year-old pilot, has been published by New York magazine, which obtained a confidential document from Malaysian police investigating the incident.
According to the document, the FBI recovered deleted data points from the flight simulator on Zaharie’s hard drive.
“We found a flight path, that lead to the Southern Indian Ocean, among the numerous other flight paths charted on the flight simulator, that could be of interest,” the document said, according to the magazine.
Although the paths are similar, the simulated flight’s endpoint is located some 900 miles (1,450 kilometres) from the area where the plane is believed to have gone down.
The Boeing 777 vanished for unknown reasons on 8 March 2014 en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people aboard, mostly Chinese nationals. It remains one of the greatest mysteries in aviation history.
The Malaysian government continues to maintain that it does not know what caused the incident.
At the time Zaharie, an opposition supporter, came under scrutiny amid unsubstantiated reports that he was upset over a jail sentence handed to Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim hours before the plane took off or was suicidal due to personal problems.
But his family and friends strongly reject such claims as baseless.
News of the simulated flight came the same day that Malaysia, Australia and China, the three nations leading the search, said that hope of finding the flight’s final resting place is “fading” and that the massive hunt will be suspended if nothing turns up in the suspected crash zone.
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So after 2 years they come with this. Why not tell the truth and say it’s costing too much money to continue the search.
Why haven’t they searched in the Bermuda Triangle? It’s the obvious place surely
A big lie that has almost caused WW111 and still can, causing the extermination of life on this planet as we know it , has completely disappeared from media coverage. Why ?
MH-17 Two Years of Anti-Russian Propaganda
July 17, 2016
Exclusive: Two years ago, Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was shot out of the sky over eastern Ukraine killing 298 people and opening an inviting path for a propaganda campaign toward a new Cold War with Russia, writes Robert Parry.
Robert Parry) is an American investigative journalist best known for his role in covering the Iran-Contra affair for the Associated Press (AP) and Newsweek
Perhaps it’s only fitting that as we reach the second anniversary of the horrific shoot-down of Malaysia Airlines Flights 17, The New York Times would mark the occasion by once more using the tragedy as a propaganda club to advance the neocon goal of a new, costly and very dangerous Cold War with Russia.
On Saturday, the Times again demonstrated its disdain for normal journalistic practices as it picked up an amateur assertion that the Russians had faked satellite imagery showing Ukrainian anti-aircraft missile systems in eastern Ukraine before the civilian airliner was blown out of the sky on July 17, 2014.
If one wants to apply Sherlock Holmes logic to this “dog not barking” problem, you would probably conclude that the U.S. government clammed up after Kerry’s statements and the DNI’s sketchy white paper because – as more evidence was uncovered and analyzed – it was not pointing in the direction that U.S. propagandists wanted.
Lacking Balance
Yet, it is Russia, not the United States, that is taken to task for not providing its data in the most pristine fashion, even as the U.S. government provides nothing at all. And whenever the MH-17 issue is raised in the major Western news media, this strange official U.S. silence is ignored or excused while other inconvenient facts are also left out, such as a report by Der Spiegel that the German intelligence service, BND, had found that MH-17 photos supplied by the Ukrainian government “have been manipulated.”
https://consortiumnews.com/2016/07/17/mh-17-two-years-of-anti-russian-propaganda/
Photograph published by the New York Times purportedly taken in Russia of Russian soldiers who later appeared in eastern Ukraine. However, the photographer has since stated that the photo was actually taken in Ukraine, and the U.S. State Department acknowledged the error.
Even more egregious is the blackout that the Times and other news organizations have applied to the Dutch intelligence report regarding the presence of Ukrainian military anti-aircraft batteries in eastern Ukraine capable of bringing down a commercial airliner at 33,000 feet and the rebels lack of such a powerful weapon.
Read more :
https://consortiumnews.com/2016/07/17/mh-17-two-years-of-anti-russian-propaganda/
World War III, you really are a fool
In conclusion.
Oceans are massive.
I wouldn’t trust or believe the Malaysian police as far as Id spit…! Such a corrupt bunch at the best of times
Malay people are incredibly nice and often genuine and honest.
The ordinary people are extremely kind and genuinely nice.
The government however….
I said police!!! And believe me I wouldn’t trust them as far as I’d spit!!
You could say that about most police, in most countries, to be far.
Do you have a lot of experience of the Malaysian police?
I’m sure they’re not nearly as bad as the crowd over here!
Two years for this to come to light?
I still reckon they flew through some tear or blackhole and flew into an alternate universe..
It got eaten by the Langoliers
Riiiiiiip!
Ah Jes us not the pangolins from the planet arcmellion … Sure they are a a ferocious lot with a tendency to having a few pints
A pilot who flies a $200 million dollar aircraft for a living doesn’t need to practice on a $500 home made simulator which bears no resemblance to the aircraft he flies.
It’s an irrelevant side show.
A) Death visualisation. Quite common amongst those with suicidal thoughts sadly.
B) Simulation to see how far fuel load would go and where that would take him away from islands nearby etc. In other words, where could he hide the crash.
Its amazing what you find if you have to !
Its in a hangar in Tel Aviv ffs.
No its not
Ok where IS it RAELly?
Scattered around the Indian Ocean.
The fact the FBI discovered them makes the information about as believable as the Easter bunny. I’d have more trust in the Malaysian police. So many conspiracies surround the disappearance of this flight.
We’ve never been told why the Freescale staff on board were flying to China…..
Engineers on a customer visit…not that uncommon in the tech industry
Conspiracies?
Apparently when a plane crashes the black box is ejected. is it impossible to make them buoyant?
Not true
So are they going to search the area where the simulation ends?
with satellite communication ,the acars system needs to be upgraded to incorporate long distance flights!
Conspiracy! Yes it been said there were four business men traveling to sign some massive contract & seeing as they didn’t make it , the Rothschild’s made billions! Im sure someone might know how to put up the story link here ( I cant unfortunately)
It’s buried in monaghan with shergar
how about the aircraft was decompressed and the pilot in a professional manner steered the aircraft out of harms way .so sad for all
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