Or ordered out, yes. The pilot hijacked then crashed it, knowing it would embarass the Malaysian government and focus attention on the likely trumpted up charges against Anwar.
The last part hasn't gotten traction, but that is more than compensated for by Malaysia's continued FUBAR handling of events and the ensuing distain and derision its generating, so he was successful.
With so much evidence pointing to the pilot who was/is Anwar's cousin one would think that Anwar was either in on this or knew about it and he would stay in the shadows and keep his mouth shut while the government tries to drag him in for questioning.
However look at what is happening --
Anwar comes out and accuses the government of incompetence in their response to the disappearance and the government is scared to death to point the fingers at his cousin Captain Shah as the likely culprit in the cockpit.
Go figure --
Saw a theory where the pilot hijacked the plane & flew it west while ‘negotiating’ with the Malaysian government about the release of Anwar. They either released him or the pilot would take down the plane. The Malays called his bluff and the pilot wasn’t bluffing. Great reason for the Malays to keep the search in an area for a couple of days where they KNEW the plane was not and to be obfuscating, giving out false info, and not wanting the plane/black boxes found. Can you imagine China’s outrage if they knew the Malays didn’t work it out with the pilot so their 150 passengers on MH370 were saved? It was just a theory, but it answers a lot of questions as to the Malays inaction and worse.