Monday, March 24, 2014

FBI to quiz wife of Flight MH370 pilot amid fears of cockpit hijack of missing plane

FBI to quiz wife of Flight MH370 pilot amid fears of cockpit hijack of missing plane 


"American intelligence wants the backgrounds of Captain Zaharie Ahmed Shah, 53, and his co-pilot Fariq Abdul Hamid, 27, examined" 

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Language barriers increase confusion in search for MH370 . . .

Mixup shows limits of China's power

It was to be a morale-boosting show of military might in the
MH370 search, but the pilot got the wrong Australian airport.

[scroll midway down page to get to these details:]

"

The IL-76, "emblazoned with a rich-red Chinese flag, as well as a sky-blue
hull and a white underbelly, created a rare ripple of enthusiasm across the
airbase that is currently home to a large international press corp", the report
continued.

Among the benefits of the plane were its many windows, allowing a "very good
visual search capability".

No mention, then, of the plane landing at the wrong airport on Saturday,
underlining the potentially logistical and language difficulties facing complex
multi-national search effort.

"They landed at Perth and then they landed here," RAAF Corporal Janine Fabre
told Reuters at Base Pearce, a dusty collection of runways and
low-slung buildings about 35 kilometres north of Perth.

"We don't know why."

Anonymous said...

Technological barriers challenge MH370 search teams:

Quote: ". . . there is no suitable technology to spot floating objects such as seat cushions, hence the visual searches."
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