Posted on 03/22/2014 11:18:43 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The captain of missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 received a two-minute call shortly before take-off from a mystery woman using a mobile phone number obtained under a false identity, as investigators question the pilot's estranged wife, a British newspaper reported.
It was one of the last calls made to or from the mobile phone of Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah in the hours before his Boeing 777 left Kuala Lumpur on March 8, reported The Mail on Sunday.
Investigators are treating it as potentially significant because anyone buying a pay-as-you-go SIM card in Malaysia has to fill out a form giving their identity card or passport number.
Introduced as an anti-terrorism measure following 9/11, this ensures that every number is registered to a traceable person.
But in this case police traced the number to a shop selling SIM cards in Kuala Lumpur. They found that it had been bought 'very recently' by someone who gave a woman's name - but was using a false identity.
The discovery raises fears of a possible link between Captain Zaharie, 53, and terror groups whose members routinely use untraceable SIM cards. Everyone else who spoke to the pilot on his phone in the hours before the flight took off has already been interviewed.
In a separate development, The Mail on Sunday had learned that investigators were now poised to question Zaharie's estranged wife in detail.
Although the couple - who have three children - were separated, they had been living under the same roof.
The mystery caller emerged when Malaysian investigators examined the phone records of both Zaharie and his co-pilot, 27-year-old Fariq Abdul Hamid.
Investigators were keen to trace the caller and interview them, although they have stressed that the fact that the SIM card was registered to a non-existent ID card does not necessarily indicate a criminal or terrorist connection.
The wife may be the “mystery woman”.
She is seen moving out of the house that they share together the day before and then this happens.
If the FBI is running the interrogation they will have the shopkeeper who sold the SIM card on the other side of the glass as they interview the wife to see if she could possibly be the “mystery woman”.
The Malaysians no doubt will object —
It’s not unusual for a wife to call her husband, so a regular phone call from the wife would have raised no eyebrows ... :-) ...
The first of 76 virgins calling.
That is not that far-fetched. He clearly did not want to have the plane traced by radar or the wreckage found.
He could have programmed the plane to fly south until fuel ran out, dropped/slowed down over the Cocos, bailed out to be picked up by the person he last spoke with on the phone while the plane flew on for several hours and crashed.
Hopefully the Aussies have screened all flights out of the Cocos from day one.
Pilot got a call from ‘mystery woman?’
Since when is Valerie Jarrett mysterious?
especially when they need to coordinate their schedules.
Remember plane going up to 45,000 then down. Struggle for control. Then pilot sets the course and bails out over ????? She’s waiting with open arms. No witnesses alive to tell what they know/knew
Now, THAT’S not fair to put that on w/o a warning. Good thing I haven’t had lunch.
Now, where the heck did I put the system for unseeing something I have seen?
Somewhere between the Andamans and the Cocos she/he may have been waiting with a boat to pick him up.
Who would have been the wiser — no witnesses, no radar, no transponder, no discernible wreckage from a plane that flies on auto-pilot for several more hours.
The phone call before the flight is the key. Such calls are not to be made or taken.
We have your wife and children and you will follow our instructions....
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“Just because he had explosives strapped to his backside doesnt make him a terrorist.
Reminds me of what one of Clinton’s apologists said about Monica’s dress — that just because there was semen on it doesn’t mean there was sex. (Lanny Davis? Bob Beckel? Can’t recall exactly.)
“Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah’s world was crumbling, said the long-time associate. He had been facing serious family problems, including separation from his wife and relationship problems with another woman he was seeing.”
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/air-accidents/news/article.cfm?c_id=665&objectid=11226334
“The friend said Captain Zaharie, who he chatted to when they met several times a year through work, was a fanatic for “the three Fs” - food, family and flying.
When he wasn’t working he spent hours cooking or using his home-made flight simulator for a variety of situations he wouldn’t experience at the controls of a commercial airline, such as flying at the highest and lowest possible altitudes.”
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/air-accidents/news/article.cfm?c_id=665&objectid=11226334
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