(Malay) Cops find five Indian Ocean practice runways in MH370 pilot’s simulator, BH reports

MalaysiaToday ^ | March 18, 2014 | BH

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Cops find five Indian Ocean practice runways in MH370 pilot’s simulator, BH reports

Investigators have discovered the runways of five airports near the Indian Ocean loaded into Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah’s home-made flight simulator, a Malay daily reported today.

“The simulation programmes are based on runways at the Male International Airport in Maldives, an airport owned by the United States (Diego Garcia), and three other runways in India and Sri Lanka, all have runway lengths of 1,000 metres.

“We are not discounting the possibility that the plane landed on a runway that might not be heavily monitored, in addition to the theories that the plane landed on sea, in the hills, or in an open space,” the source was quoted as saying.

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[don-o]

Nothing that comes from Malaysia can be trusted including what was supposedly on this pilot’s computer.

That is one important takeaway. Another is skepticism over ALL the media reports as each one races to be first.

[yield 2 the right]

Way too elaborate for anyone to pass up with this disappearance of MH370....could very well be a really nice home based flight sim setup for good uses or used to plan out something bad using this flight(MH370). We do not know, yet if ever...

[rabidralph]

Heh-heh.

[Fire_on_High]

It’s fairly common. Friend on IRC flies for Delta, says he has one and so do quite a few of his co-workers. Not all are equally nice, but quite a few are. Also says being absolutely sky-mad is very common among pilots...it’s their job, it’s their hobby, it’s their life.