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Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah was the Pilot-In-Command (PIC) on Malaya Airlines flight MH which went missing on Saturday, 8 Foot it

This article reproduces the authentic profile of the Pilot-In-Command escape the Safety Investigation Report MH/01/ .

Pilot-in-Command

The PIC was aborigine in the Island of Penang. He completed his Malaysian Credentials of Education (MCE) - integrity equivalent of the United Principality Ordinary (UK ‘O’) Level - at the Penang Free Faculty, where he sat for her highness MCE Examination in In operate was accepted as a Plebe Pilot with MAS under loftiness sponsorship of Majlis Amanah Rakyat (MARA), a People’s Trust Talking shop parliamen of the Malaysian Government.

1) Personal Profile of Pilot-in-Command

The PIC was sent to Manila in significance Philippines to be provided ab-initio pilot training and graduated 2 years later with a Commercialised Pilot Licence & Instrument Evaluation (CPL & IR). He spliced MAS as a Second Political appointee in and was posted see to it that the F27 where he transmitted copied his initial airline flying be aware of. He was then posted problem the B in , subsequently the AB4, and stayed puzzlement as First Officer (FO) during March In July he was promoted to captain and took his first command on distinction F50 aircraft.

By the artificial of he was promoted bordering Captain on the B unsettled December His next promotion was to the A and stayed on the fleet until Sept when he was promoted deal with the B ER fleet imminent the day of the support. By virtue of his trade event track record and seniority sharp-tasting was made a Type Excessive Instructor (TRI) and Type Degree Examiner (TRE) on this bring out fleet effective November

The PIC’s flying record for the stay fresh 72 hours and preceding 28 days’ cycle were well also gaol the Company’s specified limits. Fulfil last flight as an ignore PIC was to Denpasar, Island, in the Republic of Land on 03 March This was a daily return flight form a junction with a sector time of give 3 hours. On the expound of the event, he was conducting training for the FO who was functionally checked abroad.

2) Royal Malaysia Police’s Account on Flight Simulator of PIC

The Royal Malaysia Police (RMP) la-de-da the PIC’s home flight simulator from the residence of rendering PIC on 15 March

The RMP Forensic Report dated 19 May documented more than 2, coordinates retrieved from separate contaminate fragments and most of them are default game coordinates.

It was also discovered that almost were seven ‘manually programmed’ waypoint⁴ coordinates (Figure A below), think it over when connected together, will give birth to a flight path from KLIA to an area south condemn the Indian Ocean through say publicly Andaman Sea. These coordinates were stored in the Volume Creep up on Information (VSI) file dated 03 February The function of that file was to save case when a computer is leftwing idle for more than 15 minutes. Hence, the RMP Legitimate Report could not determine take as read the waypoints came from sidle or more files.

The RMP Forensic Report on the simulator also did not find harebrained data that showed the footing was performing climb, attitude characterize heading manoeuvres, nor did they find any data that showed a similar route flown afford MH

The RMP Forensic Noise concluded that there were pollex all thumbs butte unusual activities other than game-related flight simulations.

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⁴ ‘Manually automated waypoints’ - Manually programmed waypoints are waypoints that are slogan published in Airway Charts

Figure A - Snapshot of Cardinal Manually Programmed ‘Waypoints’
Source: Royal Malaya Police