Hopes fade of finding the final resting place of doomed flight MH370

Confidential Malaysian police documents obtained by NY show that the pilot of MH370 apparently once plotted a murder-suicide flight path similar to the one ultimately followed by the doomed plane, which vanished into the southern Indian Ocean in 2014.

Malaysia, China and Australia say they will suspend the search for the Malaysia Airlines passenger Flight MH370, which has been missing since 2014, if the aircraft is not found in the current search area.

Hamid was transitioning to the 777 fleet and MH370 was one of his first flights in that aircraft.

There are only 3,900 square miles left in the area West of Australia.

Liow said the search, hampered by bad weather and damaged equipment, will end by December.

The Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 pilot, according to a report Friday by the BBC, “had no money problems, no mental health problems, no marriage problems, no drug or alcohol problems, no history of odd behavior”.

“Suspend the search, to me, means end the search”, she said.

Some debris from the wreck has shown up in Mozambique, Maldives, and possibly Madagascar, but no one has found the plane’s main body, or its passengers. Since then approximately $135 million has gone toward underwater search efforts spanning 46,332 square miles in the southern Indian Ocean, per Reuters. But experts agree the passage of time and distance has made them unusable as clues to the location of the plane.

While several pieces of Boeing 777 debris have washed up along the east coast of Africa, nothing related to MH370 has been found in the area.

Media captionDarren Chester, Australian Transport Minister: “A further search is not now viable”.

Speaking in 2014 about the mystery, the wife and daughter of Mr Shah said the 53-year-old pilot had been desolate in the weeks before the aircraft’s disappearance – and refused pleas to attend marriage counselling sessions.

The worldwide rescue team searching for the wreckage of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, lost since March 2014, has announced it will abandon operations if the plane is not found in the current search area.

The meeting, involving transport ministers of Malaysia, China and Australia, disclosed that the search was to be suspended as there were no new credible information in identifying a specific location of the aircraft.

After two years, the joint search has covered 110,000 sq km, an area more than 150 times the size of Singapore.

But Jeanette Maguire, whose sister and brother-in-law Cathy and Bob Lawton, from Brisbane, Australia, were aboard Flight 370, said that while the decision is “very hard to accept”, she understood searchers needed more information to continue, “because it’s costing an absolute fortune”.

Kennedy’s theory raises the possibility that someone may have been in control of the plane in the final moments.