MH370 – Captain Fit to Fly? | Words, By George!

The captain of flight MH370 was facing serious family problems, including separation from his wife and problems with another woman he was seeing, according to a long-time associate who believes he may have taken the Boeing 777 for a “last joyride” before crashing into the Indian Ocean.

The fellow pilot has revealed to The New Zealand Herald that Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah’s world was crumbling and he was in no state of mind to fly the day the Malaysia Airlines jet disappeared.

Speaking on condition of anonymity, the man told the newspaper he believed Captain Zaharie, who had been left “terribly upset” when his wife told him she was leaving, may have decided to take the airliner with 239 people on board to a part of the world he had never flown.

“He’s one of the finest pilots around and I’m no medical expert, but with all that was happening in his life Zaharie was probably in no state of mind to be flying,” the friend said.

The background of the captain and his co-pilot, Fariq Abdul Hamid, continue to be investigated by authorities struggling to determine what caused the plane to turn dramatically off its flight path and head to the southern Indian Ocean where it is believed to have crashed.

Britain’s Daily Telegraph reported yesterday that senior investigators believed the plane had been crashed deliberately in a suicide mission.

“This has been a deliberate act by someone on-board who had to have the detailed knowledge to do what was done,” the newspaper’s source said.

The unnamed friend of Captain Zaharie told The New Zealand Herald he spoke with the pilot several times when they met through work.

He claimed Captain Zaharie spent hours using his home-made flight simulator – which was last week seized to be analysed by the FBI – for a variety of situations he wouldn’t experience at the controls of a commercial airline, such as flying at the highest and lowest possible altitudes.

“It is very possible that neither the passengers nor the other crew on-board knew what was happening until it was too late,” the man said.

Source: The New Zealand Herald.

Is this a plausible explanation, or is this another attempt to make news when there is none?

One comment on “MH370 – Captain Fit to Fly?”

To fill speculations more,- the younger pilots buddy was sentenced to 5 years in jail just before take-off, was it?
But again, I feel ready to agreee on your conclusions, yet unproved.