[Zhang Fei]

My guess is that this was the woman the pilot was having an affair with (that triggered the divorce). Probably yet another dead end.

[livius]

I’m voting for “girlfriend,” too. As for the Malaysians waiting two weeks to question the wife ... well, that seems typical of everything else they have done.

[FR_addict]

“My guess is that this was the woman the pilot was having an affair with (that triggered the divorce). Probably yet another dead end.”

Maybe, but the woman used a fake ID to get the pay-as-you-go phone. That sounds like more than a girlfriend to me.

[Reeses]

the woman the pilot was having an affair with

It could be his ladyboy instead, which in Malaysia would have reason to use an undocumented cell phone.