kristinn, I read somewhere there was a flight engineer on-board that night. Don’t have a link.
I heard about the flight engineer for the first time today on top-of-the-hour radio news.
So why have they been witholding this piece of info?
(Reuters) - Malaysian police are investigating a flight engineer who was among the
passengers on the missing Malaysia Airlines plane as they focus on the pilots and anyone
else on board who had technical flying knowledge, a senior police official said.
The aviation engineer is Mohd Khairul Amri Selamat, 29, a Malaysian who has said on
social media he had worked for a private jet charter company.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/17/malaysia-airlines-engineer-idUSL2N0ME04O20140317
I could have sworn I read that also, as part of a very early article, maybe one of the brit papers? my guess is an article between say 3/12 to 3/15. I seem to have a posted about an engineer on 3/15. Off to check now.
Ok - here it is: The aviation engineer is Mohd Khairul Amri Selamat, 29, a Malaysian who has said on social media he had worked for a private jet charter company.
link here: story is at 6:04am on their timeline (quite a ways down the page after the main story)
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/missing-malaysia-airlines-flight-live-3219331#ixzz2wHkAJ0Ge
I thought the one I read about, tho, was a Malaysian Airlines employee - I’ll keep digging for that