I doubt it. The pilot seems to be the least Muslim and more stable of the two - his much younger co-pilot was known as a “devout Muslim,” which is never a good sign. And don’t tell me he wasn’t “devout” because he invited women into the cockpit ... the 9/11 terrorists spent their last evenings in strip clubs getting lapdances.
This was much more carefully planned and executed than would be true of somebody getting bummed out and deciding on the spur of the moment to “get back” at his government. It also probably took more than one person.
Another factor that we are not considering is that the pilot really loved flying and loved that plane. I’m not a flyer, but I know some, and none of them would take out their plane.
All good points in your reply.
Captain Zaharie has been described as a caring family-man sort of guy and someone who delivers food and helps out neighors—so it’s difficult to believe he would harm all the passengers in any way.
But if he was as “fanatical” as described in this article--
He may have planned to land on some airstrip where he would then gain world-wide publicity, expose the Malay government to ridicule, everyone would be safe and he would simply join his beloved Ibriham in jail. But he never made it to that impossible airstrip in his head.
Re it had to be more elaborate plan needing 2+ hijackers—nothing described by the media so far could not have been accomplished by a single, extremely skilled B777 pilot like Captain Zaharie.