IIRC, the pilot was a supporter of this politician.
Two official sources, who are close to the investigation but not authorized to comment publicly, said there were three main reasons that investigators believe the plane’s manoeuvres before it vanished from military radar on March 8 were intentional:
• The communications were disabled during the handover between Malaysian and Vietnamese air traffic controllers, the moment at which the jet’s disappearance from radars was least likely to be noticed. “That is the precise moment to disappear an aircraft – that was what was exploited,” a source told The Daily Telegraph;
• MH370’s unusual flight path – though little is known about speed and altitude – appears to have been programmed deliberately;
• According to the source, “all the investigators are saying the same thing – there is no precedent in the history of commercial aviation where the sat-com [satellite communications] and the transponder have been knocked out and the plane continued to fly”.