Search For Missing Malaysia Airlines Jetliner Will Be Suspended

An FBI forensic examination shows the pilot of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 conducted a flight simulation on his home computer that closely matched the suspected route of the missing Boeing 777 in the southern Indian Ocean, according to a Malaysian government document obtained by NY magazine.

The pilot of doomed Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 conducted a simulated flight deep into the remote southern Indian Ocean less than a month before the plane disappeared from radar in the same area, according to the New York Magazine.

Wang Zhuncai whose daughter was aboard Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.

There are only 3,900 square miles left in the area West of Australia. Australian Transport Minister Darren Chester said this week that Friday’s meeting in Malaysia would be an opportunity to “discuss next steps” as the search nears completion.

Malaysia’s transport minister Liow Tiong Lai said bad weather conditions had delayed the search which was scheduled to be complete by June.

A map released by the Australian Maritime Safety Authority details the search area for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, April 7, 2014.

That was the first time officials directly involved in the search have lent support to contested theories that someone was in control during the flight’s final moments. “I also want to reassure families and friends that we’re all on the same chain”.

Its statement on Thursday also repeated calls for a concerted worldwide effort to find and study more debris in the western Indian Ocean. This has been the largest and most expensive search in aviation history, costing US$137 million (S$186 million). I’m sorry for being so frank but you have the most at stake here, ‘ she said at a news conference. Moreover, apart from a few pieces of debris appearing on the Eastern Africa coast, nothing else from the aircraft was found in the last two years and a half.

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

Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 disappeared on March 8, 2014 en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people on board, a lot of them being Chinese nationals. Much of what happened to the plane remains a mystery, though the Malaysian government has concluded that it was deliberately steered off course.

The minister insisted searchers believed they were looking in the right area – despite a report on Thursday citing a search project manager saying the plane may have glided down rather than dived, so could have travelled further than thought. “We have used the most high tech and the best people for this search”.