If this turns into a hostage situation then at least gives hope that the passengers are alive. For now.
I think the investigators ought to take a look at his flight simulator setup, and check if there were any specific airports he was practicing landing into...
While it very well may provide a valuable clue, pilots having flight sims is very, very common.
It may prove to be nothing.
Working at Boeing I once got to fly a 757 flight simulator before we ended the program. It is unbelievable how real the simulation is in a simulator that cost nearly as much as the plane. I did pretty good flying it over Seattle and landing at Boeing Field.
While it very well may provide a valuable clue, pilots having flight sims is very, very common.
It may prove to be nothing.
Working at Boeing I once got to fly a 757 flight simulator before we ended the program. It is unbelievable how real the simulation is in a simulator that cost nearly as much as the plane. I did pretty good flying it over Seattle and landing at Boeing Field.
UPDATEAnd for some reason there is a pic of him with a dog dish and a butcher knife?
An image has emerged of the pilot of the missing Malaysia Airlines jet wearing a T-shirt with a 'Democracy is Dead' slogan as it has been revealed he could have hijacked the plane in an anti-government protest.
Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah, a father-of-three, was said to be a 'fanatical' supporter of the country's opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim - jailed for homosexuality just hours before the jet disappeared.
It has also been revealed that the pilot's wife and three children moved out of the family home the day before the plane went missing.
It comes as FBI investigators say the disappearance of MH370 may have been ‘an act of piracy’ and that the possibility that its hundreds of passengers are being held at an unknown location has not been ruled out.
(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/03/16/article-2581817-1C56DB9E00000578-105_964x699.jpg)
Peter Chong (left) with best friend Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah, pilot of the missing Malaysia Airlines plane. He is pictured in a T-shirt with a Democracy is Dead slogan as police investigate claims he could have hijacked the plane as an anti-government protest
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2581817/Doomed-airliner-pilot-political-fanatic-Hours-taking-control-flight-MH370-attended-trial-jailed-opposition-leader-sodomite.html (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2581817/Doomed-airliner-pilot-political-fanatic-Hours-taking-control-flight-MH370-attended-trial-jailed-opposition-leader-sodomite.html)
It has also been revealed that the pilot's wife and three children moved out of the family home the day before the plane went missing.
(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/03/16/article-2581817-1C573A6200000578-757_964x399.jpg)
Working at Boeing I once got to fly a 757 flight simulator before we ended the program. It is unbelievable how real the simulation is in a simulator that cost nearly as much as the plane. I did pretty good flying it over Seattle and landing at Boeing Field.
And for some reason there is a pic of him with a dog dish and a butcher knife?
Starting to read like a Robert Ludlum novel....
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0524924/ (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0524924/)
yah....when I was stationed at the LSO School at NAS Oceana, I got to fly the A6 trainer...I was doing approaches over Virginia Beach to a touch and go at NAS Oceana. They could program in any and all kinds of weather conditions and cockpit malfunctions, which luckily I wasn't tasked to deal with.
The other cool simulator was our LSO platform simulator. It had voice recognition so the aircraft would respond to calls by paddles and it was incredibly realistic as a night landing simulator. The deck motion simulation alone would make you queasy.....
Good stuff....
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I don't think that picture means anything. The look on his face is more consistent with someone having fun and pretending to be a violent butcher knife wielding maniac - with the dog's food in hand - than some fanatic expressing actual rage.
Here's the pic:(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/03/16/article-2581817-1C54D08A00000578-147_470x500.jpg)
I just moved from VaBch when there was a crash into apartments a few years ago. It was surreal the pilot dumped the fuel and no lives were lost and landed with his eject chute and said, 'Hi I am sorry I crashed into you.'
For some reason I just don't think that is a "dog dish," more likely some kind of food storage container.
fair enough; I still think the picture is innocent.
Anwar Ibrahim is a broadly popular democracy icon and former deputy prime minister whose prosecution on a charge of sodomy is seen by many Malaysians as political persecution.
And I was just wondering what kind of sodomy constitutes political persecution.
And I was just wondering what kind of sodomy constitutes political persecution.
Sodomy, or similar charges, have been used for centuries to eliminate political opposition whether true or not.