Trending News|August 15, 2014 12:02 EDT
Malaysia Airlines MH370 Captain Home Simulator Data - Will It Provide New Leads?
New information on the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 may have emerged, linking one of the pilots as a potential suspect in the demise of the plane's 238 people on-board.
Current investigations led authorities to the house of Zaharie Shah, the captain of MH370, where they discovered a home-made simulator used before the plane's disappearance.
Details from Shah's simulator revealed that the plane was directly rerouted to a small remote island in southern Indian Ocean.
"The discovery leaves Capt Zaharie as the prime suspect in a crime which cannot yet be proven to have been committed - and Malaysian police have been careful in their public comments to stress that all leads are still being investigated and no conclusions have been reached," according to The Telegraph.
Results from Australian air crash investigations also presumed that there could deliberate sabotage involved with he Malaysian aircraft, said Peter Marosszeky, an aviation expert from University of New South Wales.
Further details revealed that there seems to be a significant power interruption at the time MH370 disappeared on radar and tried to communicate with satellite, "These include a power interruption to the aircraft satellite data unit (SDU), a software failure, loss of critical systems providing input to the SDU or a loss of the link due to aircraft attitude," according to The Daily Mirror UK.
For the meantime, search and investigation teams comprised from Malaysia, Australia, and United States have halted the operations until August. An official media spokesperson said that the organizations concerned will take this time to refocus their search and narrow down their leads on the case.