He was making good progress on exactly that plan:
The friend said the pilot's relationships were breaking down, with Captain Shah involved with another woman and his wife having decided to move out of their family home.
So the wife #1 is leaving - what is there to worry about? He has a replacement on hot standby. Muslims do not rate their women exceptionally high anyway. A man can send his wife packing just by sending her three SMS with the text "I divorce you." Or he could keep both. Certainly this is not something that a Muslim would commit a mass murder for. It's not even a killing of infidels; some Chinese passengers may be fellow Muslims. The Quran forbids that.
From what I understand in the Muslim culture its a sin to commit suicide, but as long as you do it for Allah and Jihad its all good
The moslem pilot probably bopped the other women because moslems have a final alcohol/sex fling before going Kamikaze (just like 9-11 hijackers).
In other words, if you notice Hussein bopping Larry Sinclair ‘one last time,’ head deep underground.
Sounds to me like another red herring of the many excuses posited.
Supposedly Shah got a call from a woman using a SIM card that was obtained using a false ID - the “other” woman calling it off after he’d left his family for her? That might be upsetting.
Another ‘theory’ .... he was politically active, supposedly upset over the court verdict in the morning. He hijacked the plane to use it/passengers as leverage to get the Malaysians to release the opposition leader. This might explain why he flew around ..... was talking to the Malaysian government. It might also explain why the Malaysian government has given out false and/or misleading info - seems to be hiding something. Can you imagine the anger if the families/China found out Malaysia refused to bargain & everyone died because of it? Yikes. If Malaysia called Shah’s bluff, plus with the ‘other woman’ scenario, I can see him ditching the plane. He would have had to incapacitate the co-pilot in this scenario, IMO.