Wednesday, March 19, 2014
FBI Examining Malaysia Airline Pilot's Flight Simulator
Apparently, even the FBI consider the deleted files worthy of further investigation:
via ABCNews: FBI Examining Malaysia Airline Pilot's Flight Simulator:
more specifically:
via: TheGuardian: FBI asked to help retrieve pilot’s deleted flight simulator data
• US investigators in Quantico, Virginia, were examining “hard drives belonging to [the] two pilots”, CNN reported. Malaysian officials said some material had been deleted from a flight simulator used by the pilot.
• MH370 may not have used waypoints to navigate after losing contact with ground control, Malaysia’s defense minister suggested, contradicting a Reuters report last week.
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FBI analyses pilot’s flight simulator data as search for MH370 enters 13th day
"Malaysia has now made available to the FBI electronic data generated by both pilots of flight MH370, including data from a hard drive attached to the captain's flight simulator, and from electronic media used by the co-pilot, Fariq Abdul Hamid, an American law enforcement official said to Reuters.
The official, however, said he could not confirm that some data had been wiped from the simulator and stressed that there was no guarantee the FBI analysis would turn up any fresh clues.
Missing Malaysia Airlines plane lacked $US10 upgrade that could have provided crucial satellite data for search
"The upgrade, which wholesales for about $US10 per flight ($10.90), would have provided investigators with the direction, speed and altitude of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 even after other communications from the plane went dark, said a satellite industry official familiar with the equipment.
Missing MH370: Flight simulator’s info erased
"PUTRAJAYA: Most of the information from Capt Zaharie Ahmad Shah’s private flight simulator has been erased.
Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar told the daily press conference at the Sama-Sama Hotel here that most of the data in the simulator had been erased on Feb 3, but experts were now trying to recover the data by tracing the forensic footprint.
The IGP’s statement debunks a report in a daily which reported that five landing sites had been discovered in the MH370 pilot’s flight simulator.
The daily reported on Tuesday that the simulator showed five landing sites in the northern and southern corridors of the ongoing search and rescue operation.
New MH370 satellite data calculations narrow hunt to remote stretch of ocean off Australia: Search area cut to the size of Arizona
"Investigators have halved the scope of the search for missing Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 to an area roughly the size of Arizona, off the coast of Australia, it was reported late Wednesday.
Hourly satellite pings from the aircraft, refined by U.S. and British aviation officials, provided far more information than expected as to where a wreck may be found, allowing the search to be drastically narrowed to two possible flight paths.
Both of the routes head toward the South Pole and end in the Indian Ocean, some 1429 miles from Perth, ABC News reported. The calculations have now been handed over to Australian officials and the county's search and rescue crews are combing the area."
Just for yucks & giggles:
Obama says search for flight MH370 ‘top priority’
'Jailed' Malaysian opposition leader admits having links to missing MH370 pilot
"Ibrahim said that he was not denying that Zaharie is related to one of his in-laws and that he has met him on several occasions, adding that the pilot is a close friend of PKR supreme council member and Subang MP R. Sivarasa.
Dismissing reports that Zaharie was a political fanatic, Ibrahim said that the pilot was a follower of his Twitter account and had no personal contact with him, News.com.au reported.
While Ibrahim had previously denied close links with Zaharie, he later said that it was only after he saw the pilot's photograph that he remembered seeing him at party meetings."
Insurance payments made for missing 777
"BERLIN — German insurance company Allianz said it has made initial payments in connection with the missing Malaysian Airlines Boeing 777.
Allianz’s global head of communication Hugo Kidston confirmed Wednesday that the Munich-based insurer and “other co-reinsurers of Malaysia Airlines aviation hull and liability policy have made initial payments.”
Kidston said the payments were in line with normal market practice and contractual obligations when an aircraft is reported as missing.
He declined to say how much money the company had paid already and didn’t give any further details on who exactly received the money.
Search crews from 26 countries are looking for the plane that vanished early March 8 with 239 people aboard en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing."
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